From Kalamazoo, MI station WWMT:
Mastodon bones discovered in local family’s backyard
Imagine digging in your yard and finding a prehistoric beast!
That's what happened to a West Michigan family.
Newschannel 3 was out in Eaton County Tuesday to see what they dug up.
Back in November, Eric Witzke was having a pond dug in his backyard in Bellevue Township.
It was a simple project that soon opened up a prehistoric portal.
"It was amazing to see these bones and see the size of these bones coming up out of the ground," Witzke said.
Contractor and neighbor Daniel LaPoint, Jr. was doing the digging.
"It was just something different. I automatically assumed dinosaur. That's what popped into my head," LaPoint said.
LaPoint and Witzke dug up a total of 42 bones.
Putting the bones together painted a clear picture of the huge creature.
It was a mastodon.
The bones were donated to a nearby museum. Very cool!