Mammoth bones unearthed on Oregon State football field
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Oregon State wide receiver Jordan Bishop, right, stretched for a touchdown against UCLA defender Dalton Hilliard during a game in Corvallis, Ore. in Sept. 2011.
PORTLAND, Ore. » Construction workers have unearthed the bones of a mammoth and other ice age mammals on the Oregon State University football field.
The Oregonian reports crews working on an expansion around Reser Stadium found a femur from one of the ancient elephants and bones from a bison and camel, all dating back 10,000 years.
A spokesman says the OSU archaeologist believes the 10-foot pit where the remains were found could have been a pond or watering hole.
OSU associate professor of anthropology Loren Davis says sick animals often went to a body of water to die.
Davis says the find isn’t unusual since thousands of mammoths and other long-gone creatures once roamed the surrounding Willamette Valley.
Construction work has been moved elsewhere while experts examine the bones.
4 responses to “Mammoth bones unearthed on Oregon State football field”
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How interesting, but we have a lot of prehistoric creatures also in Hawaii, the State Legislature!
too bad they aren’t extinct!
Forget Beavers! Change that team name to Mammoths! The Oregon State Mammoths.
Don’t know about that the Mammmothians might protest the use of their name.