Rare Seven-Foot Mammoth Tusk Unearthed in Mississippi Creek

This specimen is the first complete tusk of its kind found in Mississippi.

A local man spotted a fully intact seven-foot-long mammoth tusk sticking out of a Mississippi creek bank earlier this month. The gargantuan fossil is thought to have belonged to a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), a relative of the woolly mammoth not commonly found in Mississippi. The discovery marks the first time a fully intact tusk of this…

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