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When an Iowa family first stumbled across the strange object intheir backyard, it looked like an old bowling ball. But imagine thesurprise when the "ball" turned out to be part of a massive mammoth bone . The bone was discovered two years ago, and now the family's quiethome in Oskaloosa has turned into a bustling excavation site, wherethe bones are kept in the living room, according to ABC-affiliate ABC5-WOI in Des Moines . The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History reportedly has stepped in to oversee the research. The size of this discovery is quite uncommon, Sarah Horgen, themuseum's education coordinator, told ABC News. It s pretty exciting- partially because the mammoth is beingdiscovered where it died. And we know that because we re findingvery large bones right alongside very small bones. The mammoth bones, reported to be at least 12,000 years old, werefound about 10 feet underground. "The conditions of the bones wereideal," archaeologist Marlin Ingalls of the Iowa StateArcheologist's office told The Huffington Post. A farmer identified only as John said in an ABC5-WOI video that heencountered a 4-foot-long mammoth femur bone in 2010 when walkingwith his two sons behind their home. Ingalls said the bone wasfound vertically in the bottom of a creek, and at first, one of thesons thought it was a bowling ball. "The ball was actually the head of a femur. I said, 'boys that's abone,'" John, who said he has a personal interest in archeology,told ABC. "That's a really big bone." John recently brought the fossil to the University of Iowa, and nowresearchers have joined the backyard dig, finding the mammoth sfeet and toe bones, and its floating and thoracic ribs. Ingalls,who recently participated in a dig, said that some of the ribs werefound side by side. "Finding the small bones is a very significant attribute in termsof the possibility of finding a nearly complete skeleton," Ingallstold The Huffington Post. "There will be additional excavations outthere in about two weeks in the hope that we can enlarge theexcavation and recover as many of those as possible." Also on HuffPost:. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Urinary Incontinence Products , Maternity Brief Underwear for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Incontinence Pants.
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