Michigan cousins go after crayfish, hook a dinosaur
(CNN) -- An 11-year-old from Michigan said he is going to really wow his schoolmates Friday with the "coolest" show-and-tell item anyone's ever brought to the sixth grade. After all, it's not every day you get to show off a 13,000-year-old mastodon bone you and your cousin found in a stream behind your backyard. "I thought it was a rock at first, but a couple minutes later I looked more at it, and I didn't think it was a dinosaur bone, but I wasn't sure," Eric Stamatin of Shelby Township Michigan told CNN on Thursday. He and Andrew Gainariu, 11, from Troy, Michigan, were hunting for crayfish in the stream that extends from the middle branch of the Clinton River, as they often did, when they "got bored" and decided to build a dam. They made an extraordinary discovery that June day.
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Cristina Stamatin
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| 0 | "Oh my gosh, we were like psyched," Stamatin said ... |
| -0.0200151 | "Oh my gosh, we were like psyched," Stamatin said of learning it was a real mastodon bone. "I was like I think we are the first people in Michigan to find a bone (who) are only 11 years old." |
| 0.163302 | Cristina Stamatin, Eric's mother, said when the boys stumbled in the house with the discovery her first thought was "oh my goodness, what did they bring home?" |
| 0 | "It's been sitting on dining room shelf since last June," Stamatin said. ... |
| 0.34832 | "Andrew said maybe we can sell it, and that we could be famous... but I guess we are famous already," Stamatin said. ... |
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Andrew Gainariu
Overall Sentiment: 0.0729735
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| 0 | Andrew Gainariu told CNN, "I said it's obviously a dinosaur bone, but my cousin said 'no.'" |
| 0.169671 | "I told Eric, you really want to go there? I bet 100 bucks it is a dinosaur bone, because I have always been fascinated with bones," Gainariu continued. |
| 0 | "I have been thinking of selling it and making money off it," Gainariu continued, ... |
| 0 | "I have been thinking of selling it and making money off it," Gainariu continued, "but who is going to pay 2,000 bucks for a bone?" |
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John Zawiskie
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| -0.195674 | "These animals have been extinct for 10,000 years," Zawiskie told ... |
| 0.0786199 | "There are just incredible stories beneath us, about how Earth changed in the past," Zawiskie said. ... |
| 0.0671318 | "There are just incredible stories beneath us, about how Earth changed in the past," Zawiskie said. "Every once in a while -- by construction workers, or exploring 11-year-old boys and girls -- something like this comes to the forefront and reminds us of the incredible history of Earth's landscape." |
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Eric
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Troy, Michigan
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Andrew
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Dr. John
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City: Shelby Township
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GeographicFeature: Clinton River
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Company: eBay
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Organization: Cranbrook Institute of Science
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