John William had spent years with his crew searching for physical evidence of a certain subspecies. They had visited site after site, all based off of their hypothesized migration pattern of the herd. Their funds were slowly bleeding out of them, and the universities that originally supported them such as Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Toronto, all began to criticize their work. The desperation of the crew was obvious the moment you stepped foot into the dig site.
The day was June 4th, 2005, and morale was lower than it had ever been. The heat was overwhelming, and Texas was going through one of their worst droughts of the year. The ground was parched and difficult to break through, but their team persisted. At 2:47pm, just before John was about to call it a day, a cry of shock was let out by William John, an intern who had been working at the site for only a month and was completely unrelated to John William. He had uncovered a leg bone. Painstakingly, the team chipped away at the ground, brushing away particles as the rest of the skeleton was slowly revealed. They had found it. The long feet, the slouched back, and even the characteristic large nose bulge that would have been coloured a bright red when the specimen was alive were all indisputable evidence. It was a perfectly preserved Homo Asinius, also known as a paleolithic clown.