Mastodon dig not far from St. Louis

[@heard3879]

How in the world could they know it was killed by lightning?

[@tomp8871]

remember science is always a guess. If they prove it without a doubt, then it's called fact.

[@Idrinklight44]

Interesting how this is treasured, and the Native mound in Fenton was bulldozed and forgotten

[@melusinab3082]

They don't want any descendants of those people who were buried in the mound to return and claim the bones. Illinois has one of the highest amounts of human remains in storage in the U. S. They removed the Native bones and the Native tribes to bring in a replacement society of European settlers. NAGPRA is supposed to enforce the return of human remains and Gov Pritzker even passed a state NAGPRA law this year because Illinois State and other museums here refuse to return the human remains that were dug up and removed for study.

[@867diesel]

Because the US doesn’t care about natives .

[@A3Kr0n]

Hopefully the students don't get robbed while they're working.

[@TiredMomma]

It might have died just from illness or old age. That's some out of the box thinking that it may've been lightning. I bet the state park in the Imperial area is interested to hear of this discovery.

[@867diesel]

That’s so cool

[@tomp8871]

See, I went to moms for thanksgiving, and when I got back home my beautiful plaster of paris statue, I made at school, was gone from my stairs, anyone?

[@Ursabruin]

Good story

[@jamesellis2784]

Township.