Idaho Mammoth Found - Part of a skull and tusks from a mammoth that lived about 70,000 to 120,000 years ago were found in the Southeastern side of Idaho.

The skeleton was spotted earlier this month by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation near American Falls Reservoir volunteer, according to ABC News. Later on, the excavation was performed by students and instructors from Idaho State University.

The team started the excavation earlier this month and had to stop on Oct. 18 due to the fact that reservoir levels are rising and they basically had to do part of the excavation with water.

They did get to excavate at about 30 feet below the high-water mark, though, the Huffington Post noted. And the excavation is not over at all.

Apparently, they are planning on continuing the following year and in the meantime, they'll try and get further funds for a larger excavation. The mammoth in Idaho is supposed to be an entire one.

"There may be a whole mammoth there, so that is rare," Mary Thompson, the Idaho Museum of Natural History collections manager and also a University instructor shared and Fox noted.

The workers have also built a barrier so that the fossils will stay in place while underwater and not instead, get scattered around.

Although now the finding was of a Mammoth, the same area of Idaho has shows to bear different fossils throughout the years. Saber-toothed cats, short-nosed bears which were larger than grizzlies and giant sloths were all found before.

Still, a mammoth found not only partially, like it has been up to now, but wholly, like it's estimated, would provide a lot of facts about the animal in question and information about the era in which it lived as well.

"My crew is mainly students. These are things I can't teach in the classroom or in the lab. It's a very unusual opportunity," Thompson said. And it seems to be a unique opportunity indeed with this mammoth found in Idaho.