The skeleton is believed to be the most complete skeleton found since the 1940s, being about 60%-70% complete. In 2015, two neighbors from Bellevue Township dug up 42 mastodon bones.

"I think the last time a mastodon this complete was found in Michigan was in the 1940s. That was the Owosso mastodon, the mature female skeleton mounted at the U-M Museum of Natural History.

Mastodon bones are still being discovered today. Feranec said a full skeleton was found by an Orange County farmer in 2015, and a pair of tusks on the Wallkill River were excavated in 2010.

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"This is the most complete Michigan mastodon skeleton in many decades," he said in the news release. "I think the last time a mastodon this complete was found in Michigan was in the 1940s," he said.

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