ZIP Advertisement 'We'd love to find out what it is': Mystery bones discovered during construction of backyard pool Share Updated: 9:15 AM CDT Apr 29, 2021 Jocelyn Brumbaugh 'We'd love to find out what it is': Mystery bones discovered during construction of backyard pool Share Updated: 9:15 AM CDT Apr 29, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript this will soon be a beautiful six ft deep pool, but construction has hit a bit of a snag. They had found the bones friday and forgot to mention that to us. Matt Perkins says pool builders unearth these backyard bones buried about 4 to 5 ft below the ground surface. Monday morning we woke up to the pool. Guy had said he was going to come check out the pool. We assume that's normal. Wake up, he's out front with the police. Perkins says Las Vegas police and C. S. I. Revealed the bones were too big to be human and we're none of law enforcement's concern. So he got an expert to confirm the fine dates back to earth's last ice age or about 14,000 years ago. We had joked uh friday while they had started digging that. Oh great. Maybe they can find a dinosaur for us and it will pay for our pool. Obviously when they told us they found some fossils. That was more of a shock to us that we weren't expecting. That what we found was when you, when they were excavating the backyard pool is that they were cutting through ice age layers of sediment. And sure enough, they actually had a skeleton of an animal. Joshua. Bondi is the director of research at the Nevada science center. He inspected the bones and believes the fossils belonged to a large mammal, perhaps an ice age horse, a common creature that roamed the mojave desert and used nearby natural springs as a watering hole Sanibel. It it's surrounded by what appears to be some personally compacted vegetation, so it probably died on the edge of the spring and then just either fell into that spring to be preserved or or some other mechanism buried it quickly. The discovery is not far from the Tooley springs fossil bed, which has seen large discoveries like mammoths before. Now. Perkins wants to see if his backyard discovery can help science understand our primitive planet a bit better or bigger concern was this might be something we'd love to find out what it is and preserve it if we can, before we just go concrete it up.