big grizzly bears used to roam north dakota

[larson1951]

we find some good size grizzly teeth once in a while

 

[monsterrack]

Man Steve that is bad to the bone

 

[SCrocks]

That's cool! I always enjoy seeing the wide range of artifacts and things in your area. The soils around here are just not kind to things like that.

 

[rock]

Cool finds

 

[NCPeaches]

Wowsers! Those are big!

 

[timekiller]

Nice, no grizzly's here but do find bear teeth at my sites now & then along with many other types of teeth.

 

[iowa trout]

Thanks for shareing Larson you are blessed with the grounds. Here is a tooth I have admired to the likeing of the bear group ,do ya all agree ?

 

[timekiller]

Thanks for shareing Larson you are blessed with the grounds. Here is a tooth I have admired to the likeing of the bear group ,do ya all agree ?

Nah,they are wild bore tusk/teeth I find them as well.

 

[Tnmountains]

What a big tooth you have !!!!

 

[mamabear]

I would love to find one of those. I know we had them at one time, but they are long gone now. We still have bear though. that must have been a massive bear. Wonder what the print size on it was.

 

[old digger]

That's a nice sized one at that! They would have been awfully brave to hunt down a full grown Grizzly with those rather primitive bow and arrows. I suppose, get a well placed shot, shoot, then find a tree real close, and climb it as fast as you can! lol!

 

[curious kat]

....been waiting for a place to post this...thanks Larson for doing a "teeth" thing...lol Kind of glad we don't have the bears that belong to those teeth you have...scary! Just have black bears here and "puddies" like these poor ones....although one did get a chicken pet of ours....the other one was from a near by ranch...still sad

 

[natch.]

omg that was a big bear for sure!!!!. lol

 

[iowa trout]

Thanks TK Darn it hog washed again tons of range hog lots in the old school farm days .I have read alot of stories of brave natives armed with a knife going hand to hand combat with bears ..

 

[larson1951]

omg that was a big bear for sure!!!!. lol

yep it musta been a big one
i don't know what it would have weighed though but i guess maybe 500 lbs or?
i think it is about the biggest tooth we found

larson1951

 

[73dguard]

At first I thought this was a claw instead of a tooth. I wonder what it bit to split the tooth or is this a frost-pop type break due to heating and cooling?

 

[larson1951]

thanks 73
i say you are right on your idea
i think it had a crack and it would fill with water/snow/ice then freeze and get increasingly wider and more wider

larson1951

 

[Harry Pristis]

Even fossilized teeth may split like this one, once taken from their stable resting place.
In a collection, it is the eventual drying of the dentin (the interior material) which
is stressed upon drying, and may then splinter. The preventative measure
that fossil tooth collectors should take involves consolidation with resins dissolved
in acetone. There is not much you can do for a tooth that has already splintered.

 

[joshuaream]

Hopewell piece from Illinois.

The pearls are old, but not original to the piece. They are just setting there for the picture like the original maker intended.

 

[catherine1]

WOW!!! I have found a couple, but nothing compared to those. Thanks for the pics.