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(from Brownwood Bulletin 07/25/05)
BANGS -- After approximately three weeks of excavating, paleontologist Scott Clark and his crew have found a bone that has helped them identify the animal located on Ray Barnes Drive.
A 39-inch ulna bone was found, giving Clark 95 percent certainty the bones belong to a Columbian Mammoth. "The bone is typical of elephant-type animals," Clark explained. "The size of the bone, however, puts it well outside the norms of a mastodon." Without carbon dating, Clark estimated the bones to be between 9,000 and 40,000 years old. "It could be as recent as 7000 B.C., which would be near the time of paleolithic man," Clark said.

--Kinda cool to find something so old so close to home. Reminds us that we've only been on this earth for a very short time.