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.......
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.
How the hell did that dog know it was a wooly mammoth tooth?
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.
How big are mammoths and mastodons as compared to modern day African And Asian elephants?...............
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