Discoveries
In August 2008, miners in Romania unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5-million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe. Ninety percent of the skeleton's bones were intact, with damage to the skull and tusks. In 2009, a family in Portland, Michigan unearthed mastodon bones while excavating a new pond on their property. It is one of around 250 mastodons found in Michigan over the past century.
As of July 2009, six mastodon fossils were discovered in Elmacık village, in Burdur province, Turkey. Also, the first excavation to discover mastodon fossils in Elmacık village took place in 2006.
In August 2011, a skeleton of a mastodon was found in Ćavarov Stan near Tomislavgrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In November 2011, a mastodon skeleton was unearthed in Daytona Beach, FL during construction of a retention pond. The find is being studied by the Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences.
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