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Coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk buried for thousands of years

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Coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk buried for thousands of years

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Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago

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The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift, eyeing a glint of white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped it into a dump truck.

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Well, if it wasn’t thousands of years old then it’s either a forgery or a museum has some hijinks to investigate.
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  “… Unearth a mammoth tusk buried since last Thursday morning…”
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    Not particularly distinctive since most things we unearth were buried last Thursday

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