Developments in Brief : Ice Age Animal Bones Found in Ohio Yard
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A skeleton uncovered three weeks ago in an Ohio backyard has been identified as that of a moose-like creature that walked the Earth 10,000 years ago.
“It’s absolutely a female Cervalces ,” said Greg McDonald, a specialist in vertebrate paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. “It’s a very rare, spectacular find.” Only five or six good skeletons of the ancient animal exist, and all the others are males, he said.
The skeleton was discovered July 8 by an excavator who was digging a pond in a backyard in Hartville, Ohio. He eventually uncovered a nearly complete skeleton, intact and in a standing position. McDonald said the animal lived near the end of the Pleistocene Age, more commonly known as the Ice Age, which lasted from about 2 million years ago until about 10,000 years ago.
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