Mastodon neighbor's bones go on display

Mastodon bones uncovered by the surprised crew of Dan's Excavating exactly one year ago near Adams Road and M-59 are returning home Saturday for a special exhibit. The bones are estimated to be those of a mastodon that roamed Oakland County about 12,360 years ago. Known to the Rochester Hills Museum staff as the Adams Road Mastodon, the now-extinct animal is a distant cousin of the elephant, which existed for at least 3.75 million years before dying off 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.

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