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Michigan cousins go after crayfish, hook a dinosaur

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(CNN)-- An 11-year-old from Michigan stated he is visiting actually wow his schoolmates Friday with the "coolest" show-and-tell product anyone 's ever before offered the sixth grade. After all, it's not every day you get to display 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 informed 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 typically did, when they "got bored" and determined to construct a dam. They made an extraordinary discovery that June day.

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Cristina Stamatin

Overall Sentiment: 0

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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."
0.163302Cristina 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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  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.4916069
  • Mean: 0.09832138
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Andrew Gainariu

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0Andrew 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?"
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.169671
  • Mean: 0.04241775
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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."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0499223
  • Mean: -0.016640766666667
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Eric

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Troy, Michigan

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Andrew

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Dr. John

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StateOrCounty: Michigan

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City: Shelby Township

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GeographicFeature: Clinton River

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Company: CNN

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Company: eBay

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Organization: Cranbrook Institute of Science

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