BREAKING NEWS – Bellevue Township, Michigan – Found in Michigan backyard: 42 mastodon bones. Eric Witzke’s home is in Bellevue Township, Michigan, but he is clearly not the first one to roam his yard. While he and neighbor Daniel LaPoint were excavating a backyard pond, they happened upon more than 40 mastodon bones, reports ABC News. An expert from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology confirmed the find and says the bones are from a male mastodon, about age 40, that lived between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago, reports the Lansing State Journal. Some paleontologists believe that the specific mastodon that was discovered was probably owned and ridden by humans that lived in a rough neighborhood, because it appeared that it’s legs were stolen when parked, because it was sitting on four bricks. Other paleontologists disagree with the “theft theory”, simply because Bellevue Township is nowhere near Detroit.