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MAMMOTH HURDLESDAN DALSTRA/The FactsWayne Humbird stands near a triceratops skull on display Friday at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science in Cfute. The skull, as well as some of the other artifacts in this display, have taken up a large portion of space that initially was available to display Asiel, the bones of a wooly mammoth discovered at a Clute sand pit.By Jen Salisburyjen.sansbury^thefacts.comBonesto pickReligious dispute, lack of space could keep Asiel from coming home.other animals and a wooden bowl. Company President Kenny Vernor named one of the mammoths Asiel, for creation of God, and has long said that his remains would eventually be displayed local-iy-“I think they're creating problems because they don't want me to have my say with these bones, Vernor said.The pieces found during the dig have been at Texas AMUniversity for testing and conservation for about two years. The remnants of a tuskbelonging to JoeMammoth, named for the backhoe operator, disintegrated, but Asiel's tusks have not. There are two midsection fragments about three and a half feet long that would lie the focal point of an exhibit.Some of the restored fossils could be released as early as May, said anthropology Professor Michael Waters. Using standard scientific■ See ASIEL, Page 6ACLUTE — The ancient remains of a mammoth unearthed in a local sand pit might not end up in a hometown museum after all.The sticking points: uncertainties about funding the exhibit, the amount of space it would take up and explaining the young earth creationist views of the fossils'owner.There's a whole lot of unknowns here, and it keeps us from being able to say 'Sure, bring it on down', said Wayne Humbird, president of theBrazosport Museum of Natural Science.This doctrine thing is anunknown.InNovember 2003, a backhoe operator hit a mammoth tusk while digging in a pit near Brazoswood High School owned by Vernor Material and Equipment Co. A subsequent archaeological dig turned up more mammoth pieces, bones fromMammoth bones on display at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science rest in a display case. Many people are wondering about Asiel, the mammoth found at a sand pit in Clute. As scientists at Texas AM continue to study the bones, museum officials are wondering where they will be displayed.
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