The discovery of Marmaduke’s bones caused quite a stir in the small community 20 kilometres south of Moncton.
Marmaduke was one of the biggest things around Hillsborough 75,000 years ago
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 16, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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The tusks of Marmaduke the Mastodon, who roamed the streets of Hillsborough, N.B., 75,000 years ago. (Ian Curran/CBC)
July 2, 1936 was supposed to be just another day at work for C.R. Fancy, a civil engineer in Hillsborough, N.B.
He and his crew were working on a small dam off a pond on his son-in-law Conrad Osman’s property.
But work was halted when one of the men found a “peculiarly shaped rock.”
On closer inspection, they realized that rock wasn’t rock — it was bone.
“I knew then … that it was some kind of prehistoric monster,” Fancy told reporters for the Telegraph-Journal at the time.
After 75,000 years underground, Marmaduke became an overnight sensation. (The Moncton Transcript)
“I knew no animal in the province today has bones that big.”
After 75,000 years, Marmaduke the Mastodon had been unearthed.
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