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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Cool! Good doggie! But I would immediately begin excavation in my back yard. There has to be a woolly mammoth attached to the tooth...
Maybe it was just a baby tooth that fell out, and the beast moved on!
and we hope to clone one of these?
As old as 13,000 years. I bet a rock would have been much older.
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw
Great story;
A. I’ve owed gold coloured dogs like that one, and I miss having them around. No yard now.
B. He’s keeping it as an ‘heirloom’? Seems that he could sell it for some cash.
C. I love that video of the dog playing in his yard, but guess what? Now the whole state of Washington knows where that yard is. Can you say “Gold Rush” state of mind.
Maybe not. Maybe there is no retail market for such items, outside of universities or museum curators.
Folks had a cottage in northern Michigan and their German Shepherd would bring back boulders from the river older than that tooth.......
I see what you did there....hahaha
I've never had a dog find any fossilized teeth on my property. But an old woman who lived down the block's dog once found a prehistoric shark tooth.
That area is known for fossils. I go up there periodically to hunt for them. I found a beautiful fern fossil embedded in a piece of shale.
There was a tooth in that picture?
Hey... Wooly Bully
Watch it now, watch it
Here it comes, here it comes
Watch it now, he’ll get ya
Matty told Hatty, about a thing she saw
Had two big horns, and a wooly jaw
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Yeah that’s right
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Hatty told Matty, let’s don’t take no chance
Let’s not be L-7, come and learn this dance
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Watch it now, watch it, watch it, watch it
Ay... Hey... Rar rar rar
Matty told Hatty, it’s the thing to do
Get you someone really, to pull the wool with you
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Watch it now, watch it, here he comes
You got it, you got it
How the hell did that dog know it was a wooly mammoth tooth?
They could put them in the Portland Zoo where protesters are (as we type) wanting to close down the elephant exhibit.
Antifa pachyderm
:)
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