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On October 16, 1963, an excavation for a pond approximately 100 yards east of here, contracted by U.S. District Court Judge Sam Perry, uncovered a fossilized thigh bone. The Field Museum of Chicago identified it as the bone of a mastodon 10,000 years old. It was determined that the mammal's weight caused it to sink helplessly into the mud as it tried to drink at the edge of a glacial lake. The mastodon weighed approximately 12,000 pounds, stood 9-1/2 feet in height, and measured 16 feet in length. The mastodon's bones, recreated, may be viewed in the Edwin F. Deicke Exhibit Hall at Wheaton College.
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