A chance discovery by an Edmonton area woman who was walking her dogs has turned out to be a massive fossilized bone that likely belonged to an Ice Age mammoth.
Stacy Long was walking out west of Devon last spring when she came across something jutting out of the river bank. That find has now been confirmed to be a fossil relic from the Ice Age, a potential scapula from an adult mammoth.
"When I rinsed it off, it didn't look like wood anymore," she added."So I thought, 'Oh, it might be something cool."She recalled how her husband was dubious at the time that she found anything exciting. Stacy Long poses for a photo with Royal Alberta Museum staff, including paleontologist Katherine Bramble .
"What we have in the collections are teeth or tusk elements," she added."We have a couple of arm or leg bones, but we don't have as much as we'd like to have."
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