Ice Age Mammoth Bone found by Alberta woman out walking her dogs

Ice Age Mammoth Bone found by Alberta woman out walking her dogs

A chance discovery by an Edmonton area woman who was walking her dogs has turned out to be a massive fossilized bone that likely belonged to an Ice Age mammoth.

Stacy Long was walking out west of Devon last spring when she came across something jutting out of the river bank.

After Stacy sent a series of emails to the Royal Alberta Museum, experts confirmed that she had found a fossil of a scapala from a adult ice age mammoth, that was just over a metre long.

Stacy also came across a partial skull believed to be from a Bison antiquus from around the same era. The age of the ice age bones are are around 12,000 to 14,000 years old

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