Wild & woolly: Mammoth bone fragment found in the Cape
By CJ HADDAD ( cjhaddad@breezenewspapers.com ) , Cape Coral Daily Breeze A bone fossil, measuring about one foot in length and 10 inches in width, was found during UEP construction in the Cape. Utility workers stumbled upon a mammoth piece of prehistoric history last month when a long bone fragment was found during the North 2 Utility Expansion Project. The bone, measuring just about one foot in length and 10 inches in width, is believed to be the remnants of a large extinct trunked-mammal, most likely a mastodon or woolly mammoth. "It's a fairly large bone fragment and is unlikely to be the only bone in the area," said Ryan Franklin, assistant director of the Archeological and Historical Conservancy Inc., which was called to assess the fossil bone discovery. Their field assessment states that "the bone likely came from a horizon of gray clayey sand below several more superficial horizons of fine poorly drained sands and clays." The bone recove...