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Little boy stumbles on big mammoth tooth
Published: Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Print story Email to a friend Font size:ST. JOSEPH RIDGE, Wis., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- To find a woolly mammoth tooth once in a lifetime could be considered lucky, but a man in Wisconsin has done it twice.
In 1998, Gary Kidd unearthed a mammoth tooth from the bottom of the Mississippi River while clamming and thought it was a fossilized clam shell, the La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune reported. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center set him right about his find -- a water-soaked woolly mammoth that had fallen apart.
That knowledge helped him identify what his 3-year-old grandson found in a field near St. Joseph Ridge. They took the find to the archaeology center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which confirmed it was a woolly mammoth tooth.
Connie Arzigian, laboratory director at the center, estimated the fossil could be from 10,000 to 30,000 years old.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/11/06/little_boy_stumbles_on_big_mammoth_tooth/7347/
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Published: Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Print story Email to a friend Font size:ST. JOSEPH RIDGE, Wis., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- To find a woolly mammoth tooth once in a lifetime could be considered lucky, but a man in Wisconsin has done it twice.
In 1998, Gary Kidd unearthed a mammoth tooth from the bottom of the Mississippi River while clamming and thought it was a fossilized clam shell, the La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune reported. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center set him right about his find -- a water-soaked woolly mammoth that had fallen apart.
That knowledge helped him identify what his 3-year-old grandson found in a field near St. Joseph Ridge. They took the find to the archaeology center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which confirmed it was a woolly mammoth tooth.
Connie Arzigian, laboratory director at the center, estimated the fossil could be from 10,000 to 30,000 years old.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/11/06/little_boy_stumbles_on_big_mammoth_tooth/7347/
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