A fossil hunter in Mississippi recently unearthed an intact mammoth ivory 7 feet long. Believing it was the tusk of a mastodon, a far more common proboscidean in the area, Eddie Templeton was nevertheless ecstatic to find one that wasn’t fragmented. But it was only after scientists arrived from the Mississippi Museum of Natural History […]
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