A seven year old girl by the name of Emma Persico has found part of a woolly mammoth’s leg bone on a riverbank in northern Italy. The young Girl stumbled upon the fossilised chunk of tibia while walking along the River Po near the northern city of Cremona. How did the seven year old find it? The girl was walking with her father when she saw a blackened tip sticking out of a sandbank. Even her palaeontologist 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 Emma. Mr Persico used photos from a natural history museum in the Netherlands to confirm the identification he joked 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.
In my opinion I think that this is an amazing discovery and it makes me think if there is one bone there there might be others?
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