US construction workers unearth mammoth tusk | Inquirer News

US construction workers unearth mammoth tusk

/ 02:53 PM February 12, 2014

The construction site where a wooly mammoth tusk was discovered is shown on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. AP

SEATTLE, Wasington—A United States museum official says construction workers have found a tusk from an ice age mammoth.

KIRO-TV reports that the workers stopped digging when they found the fossil and called Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

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The museum’s Christian Sidor said Tuesday that museum experts have examined the fossil and “we are confident that it represents a tusk from an ice age mammoth.”

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Since the fossil was found recently on private property, Sidor says it’s up to the landowner to decide what to do with the tusk.

Sidor calls it “a rare opportunity to directly study Seattle’s ancient natural history.”

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According to the museum, the ancient elephant relatives lived in Washington state until approximately 10,000 years ago.

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