A seven-year-old Italian girl has found part of a woolly mammoth’s leg bone on a riverbank in northern Italy.
Emma Persico stumbled upon the fossilised chunk of tibia while walking along the River Po near the northern city of Cremona.
Only a blackened tip was sticking out of a sandbank, and even her paleontologist father hadn’t noticed it.
Mammoths last roamed the region at least 12,000 years ago and finding a bone there is rare, making it a dream find for the youngster.
Mr Persico used photos from a natural history museum in the Netherlands to confirm the identification – joking that if he wasn’t certain then he’d better find a new job.
The bone is now in a local museum, and will be put on display alongside a plaque with Emma’s name on it.
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i luv dinosaurs. i would luv to be dat girl
That is so cool
creepy
wow I wonder how much thats worth
nice fined
ok i guess
WOAH.That was so amazing and i love that they found that because i love woolly mammoths
wow that’s very special to have Emma’s name at the MUSEUM!!!!!
In fact instead of very special I should say very, very special!!!!!
Cool I wish I found it
Emma is sooo lucky. And she found it when even her paleontologist father didn”t notice it
WOW!!!
how old is this mammoths bone and was there any more bones
ahhh! I wish I was her she would of got lots of money for finding that bone!
THATS SO COOL
it’s just a mammoth bone
I wonder what it looks like…
I would love to have a plaque with my name on it.
wow that’s so cool <3 <3
william said not cool
i’d rather see a blobfish
i wanna see a blobfish matching donold trump
Wow. I think you would have dig in that snow to find an extinct animal’s body feature!
Wow that’s so cool
hi im sharon and im 43 my son was looking at this so i thought i would take a look to. and i was amazed so proud of u. go girl XD LOLLLLOLOLLLLLLL