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Small_64_bothwell.jpg Bothwell dig site 1
A residential property owner discovered the fossil remains of at least five mastodonts while digging a pond near Hebron in Northwest Indiana.

Small_65_bothwell.jpg Bothwell dig site 2
A team of 15 scientists and volunteers from the Indiana State Museum worked to salvage mastodont bones found near Hebron in Northwest Indiana.

Small_66_bothwell.jpg Bothwell dig site 3
The museum hopes to put a lot of the bones it found at this site in a future exhibit about mastodonts and mammoths in Indiana called Elephant Graveyards.
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