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Beachside Bachelor Party Ends With Discovery Of Mastodon Skull
If you go to the beach during the summer, you will typically find no fewer than six old dudes sweeping the sand with a metal detector in search of coins/cars, and at least half of them will be wearing Speedos or g-strings. And since no old man in a Speedo has ever steered us wrong, we have to conclude those guys are onto something.
At the hilariously named Elephant Butte Lake State Park in New Mexico, a rowdy bachelor party drunkenly wandering around said Park O' Elephant Buttes found a large, phallic object jutting out of the ground. After telling the requisite dick jokes and taking as many mock-fellatio pictures as they could think of, the group decided to dig a little deeper so they could move into faux-threesome territory. However, they quickly discovered that the object was not, in fact, a fortuitously placed dildo for their sophisticated amusement, but a tusk belonging to the skull of a three-million-year-old mastodon.
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"We also want to give a shout-out to our local sports team! Go Elephant Butte Lakers!"
In spite of being as careful as... well, as careful as a bunch of dudes at a bachelor party, the group unearthed a large portion of the skull without damaging it. When they realized what it was, they had a quick discussion, voted 4-3 against turning it into a bong, and instead notified local authorities. Paleontologists arrived on the scene and discovered that the skull is nearly 100 percent complete and may in fact be the most complete mastodon skull ever discovered.
Chris McKee via KRQE
Chris McKee via KRQE
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