Farmer Hits Fence Post, but It Turned out to Be Much More Ancient

Illustration of a mastodon (left) and an adult mammoth (right) Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

A Michigan farmer was digging up his field with a tractor when he ran into something he thought was a “bent post.”

It actually was the remains of a woolly mammoth. The remains were found on his Lima Township property, the Detroit News reported.