New Mastodon
Discovery Dig Site Completed at Stage Nature Center
(TROY,
MI) The Nature
Center is proud to announce the completion of its Mastodon Discovery Dig Site, a new attraction that interprets the
Adams Road Mastodon discovered in 2006 by a road construction crew just a few
miles from the Nature Center.
Surrounding
the dig site is a large mural showing Troy as it was 10,000 years ago with
mastodons, a giant beaver and a large moose in a bog area.
The dig is
completely interactive with a rib cage and hip bones that children can crawl
through, Nature Center Manager Stacey Yankee said. A really cool feature is the recycled tire
rubber used as soil that the children can actually dig in. There are many different fossils hidden
underneath the soil for discovering.
Included in
the dig are brushes for the children to use to find the fossils, Yankee
added.
The
American mastodon was a shaggy haired elephant-like animal that roamed Oakland
County at the end of the last glacial period, before becoming extinct roughly
10,000 years ago.
The Nature
Center is located at 6685 Coolidge Highway in Troy. For more information, call 248.524.3567.
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