Just feet aside from Oregon State University ’s football pitching , construction workers have found a kitty of prehistoric bones .
On January 25 , they were digging the grounds for a new locker room at Reser Stadium when they trip across a giant femur os . research worker at the university quickly jump on the scene and conclude it once belonged to a mammoth .
Further digging feel a whole compendium of bones and dozens of their fragments . The university ’s archeologist conceive the pearl alluviation could also include remains of a bison and some kind of ancient congener of a camel or horse cavalry .
All of these beast would have rove the champaign of Oregon , sometime over 10,000 twelvemonth ago . The camel - similar bones could very well be aCamelop , a genus of gargantuan camel that lived in western North America until around 11,700 years ago .
Loren Davis / Oregon State University viaFlickr .
" Some of the bones are not in very good frame , but some are actually quite well preserved,“Loren Davis , an associate prof of anthropology at the university , said in astatement .
The bones show no sign of accidental injury , nor did the squad find any cadaver of human bone or artifacts , suggesting the ancient beasts die of raw causes . They conceive the 3 - metre ( 10 - substructure ) stone where the remains were found was perhaps a peat bog or fen .
“ Animals who were sick would often go to a body of water and die there , so it ’s not unusual to find a radical of bone like this , ” Davis explain . “ We had all of these type of animals in the Willamette Valley back then .
“ It ’ll be a great eruditeness experience for them , to learn how to distinguish extinct animal bones .
“ It ’s really an amazing find . ”
you may view all 27 photographs of the archeological shaft on theOregon State University Flickr .
