From Fox News: A group of campers celebrating a bachelor party at a New Mexico state park Monday stumbled upon the fossil of a 3-million-year-old elephant-like creature called a stegomastodon.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reported Thursday that paleontologists were at the scene near Elephant Butte Lake and determined that the stegomastondon was about 50 years old when it died, and called the discovery a "major find."
"As we are cruising by we see a large tusk, or what seems to be a large tusk, coming out of the ground about a good three to four inches out," Antonio Gradillas, a member of the bachelor party, told KRQE.com. Gradillas alerted the New Mexico Natural History Museum to their discovery.
The fossil was nearly completely intact, which is rare and the scientific prospects of the find gave one of the excavating workers "butterflies."
"This is far and away the best one we’ve ever found," Gary Morgan, a paleontologist, told the paper. "Maybe the only complete one found in New Mexico." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/13/new-mexico-bachelor-party-finds-3-million-year-old-stegomastodon-fossil/
I guess everyone has different ideas about bachelor parties.
But at least they had a interesting time.
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