From the archives: Iowa family makes truly 'mammoth' discovery of 60,000-year-old bones
A family near St. Charles caught something unexpected while fishing in 1985: mammoth bones.
At first glance, experts believed they were about 10,000 years old. A group of scientists from the University of Iowa took the bones to Iowa City for further examination.
They later believed the mammoth was at least 60,000 years old and was a teenager when it died on the riverbank.
Watch the video above to learn why the find was so significant.
These are not the only mammoth bones to be found in the state.
In 2001, construction workers in downtown Des Moines came across the skeleton of another mammoth. You can see those fragments at the .
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