Thanks ETL.
Posted on 12/02/2018 8:07:04 AM PST by ETL
Kirk Lacewell has lived in Langley, Wa. for approximately six years, part of that time with his dog, Scout. But when Scout began to dig into the backyard, it wasn't just any old rock he was uncovering — it was a woolly mammoth tooth.
"I saw him with what looked like a rock to me one day a couple months ago and I didn’t think anything of it," Lacewell told Fox News. "And then the next day he had that rock again. He was just carrying it around the yard."
Initially, Lacewell thought it was just a rock, but it seemed different and he called experts at the University of Washington who confirmed that it was something much greater than a rock. "I called the museum over there at the University of Washington and the paleontologists examined the pictures and told me this was part of a wooly mammoth tooth," Lacewell said.
Lacewell was told the tooth could be as old as 13,000-years-old. While it isn't a rare find for the western part of Washington, according to the Burke Museum, it was most definitely a big find for Lacewell's dog, Scout.
Now, Lacewell's neighbors wonder what other prehistoric treasures could be hidden below the surface. Lacewell told Fox News he intends to keep the tooth as a family heirloom, adding that Scout could wind up finding more hidden gems.
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Oh cool! That’s one of those trick photos, if you stare at the blue bikini long enough, and relax your focus, you can see a giant sharks tooth.
Clearly an early Indian relic, and must be returned to a local tribe for proper burial.
Never to be chewed on by a dog!
Major fines pending.
Major Cultural Appropriation going on there, LOL!
I wish people would stop calling all mammoth parts “wooly” mammoth parts. A wooly mammoth is a type of mammoth and not all mammoths are wooly. Siberia had wooly mammoths. The US, not so much.
Mammoth teeth were found at the Dallas-Fort worth airport a few weeks ago. Though the media said it was from a “Wooly Mammoth”, the mammoth was probably a Columbian mammoth and likely was not much woolier than an african elephant. A Wooly mammoth would not do well in Texas summers.
My son once re-buried one in Colorado. it is in a cul de sac in a housing development. He didn’t want to deal with the delays it would cause so he just pretended it didn’t happen and knew it wouldn’t be disturbed.
Thanks ETL.
Near Seattle a few years ago they found an old prehistoric camp - tools dating to 10,500 years ago IIRC. They had photos of them, looked like a bunch of plain old rocks to me! When I drive by the place (near a creek, meadows, etc.) it is pretty cool to imagine them, and how times have changed.
Sure glad I don’t have to worry about hitting a mammoth while driving though!
How big are mammoths and mastodons as compared to modern day African And Asian elephants?...............
When the Stone Age hunters had a party, *no one* went hungry when they brought out the mammoth sandwich by the inch.
Knowing the herding mentality of today’s African elephants and how protective they are, I have serious doubts that prehistoric men with sharp sticks and flint tools could have brought down an adult beast.........................
Edinburgh scientists discover mammoth secret in ivory DNA
By Kenneth Macdonald & Marc Ellison
BBC Scotland
4 January 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46649010
Thanks SteveH.
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