Claim of Mammoth Bones Brings Treasure Hunters to NYC River

Claim of Mammoth Bones Brings Treasure Hunters to NYC River
"Effie," the mummified remains of a baby woolly mammoth found in Alaska in 1948 is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Jan. 13, 2023. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—Ask people what you might find buried in the muck at the bottom of New York City’s East River and they'd likely say “mob boss” before thinking of mammoth bones.

But several groups of treasure hunters have taken to the waterway in recent weeks after hearing a guest on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast claim a boxcar’s worth of potentially valuable prehistoric mammoth bones was dumped in the river in the 1940s.