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Intact mammoth skeleton found in Ellis County, Texas

Intact mammoth skeleton found in Ellis County, Texas

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by: Undecided Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Aug 27, '14 10:18pm  
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cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 9 years ago   Aug 27, '14 10:39pm  
Very interesting as I like to read about this.
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lana7018 Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Aug 28, '14 6:42am  
Years ago my dad and his family found a Mastedon Skull on their property in Eastland County and turned it over to the State of Texas. It goes on display from time-to-time at the UT Museum in Austin. The rest of the skeleton was believed to still be on the property but my granny would not allow them to "tear up her grass or garden" to continue to dig.
 
We still own the property and I've wondered about letting someone have another look. (My dad in the picture.)
 
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redneck roy Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 9 years ago   Aug 28, '14 7:14am  
^^^^^That is so cool.
 
I am a rock/fossil nerd - I really love finding this stuff -
 
never anything like that though -
 
DW wouldn't be too happy if I did find something like that - cuz I would be trying to find a place to display it
 
I did find a skeleton in a park in New Mexico a few years back - I turned it over to the park rangers -
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Dallas Cowboys Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 9 years ago   Aug 28, '14 7:30am  
cool story! I love that stuff.
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Sammee Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Aug 28, '14 8:18am  
@roy
 
I am with you! I regularly fossil hunt and have shoe boxes upon shoes boxes of fossils and more fossils displayed. DH does not share my passion and probably would like his space back... I recently found what appears to be a 20,000+ yr-old bison metatarsal in a creek north of Dallas. I need official confirmation before I do my happy dance.
 
Texas has awesome fossil finding opportunities. There are 300 million-year-old fossils in the old pit in Mineral Wells, it's open to the public. The North Sulphur River has Late Cretaceous fossils (60-90 million a year told), public access in Ladonia. There are many creeks in North Texas that produce fossilized shark teeth; it's more difficult to find public access to creeks, but once you're in the creek bed it's legal to walk the bed and hunt (not along the banks though).
 
The Ellis County mammoth discovery team was allowing volunteers to dig alongside a few paleontologists. That is actually who did all of the excavation, not the Perot people. Perot just stepped in recently after the work was done with only the plastering remaining. I wanted to go so badly, but it would have absolutely crushed my little paleontologist daughter if I went without her, as they wouldn't allow children on the dig site. The sacrifices of motherhood. Lol! But, we still have many, many more fossil hunt adventures to come!
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