Monday 13 June 2022 07:55 PM Researcher stumbles on enormous woolly mammoth TUSK protruding from riverbank ... trends now
A University of Virginia researcher trekking in the remote Yukon area of Alaska stumbled across an enormous woolly mammoth tusk protruding from dirt of the Koyukuk River bank last week.
'You can almost touch the #pleistocene,' UVA Environmental Humanities research specialist Adrienne Ghaly posted with a photo of the ancient tooth stuck in the river muck near the town of Coldfoot.
She said that the University of Alaska Fairbanks had first discovered the massive fossil - mammoths went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago - a year or two ago and had fastened it to the river bank with ropes.
University researchers also trained a camera on the tusk to watch it remotely.
University of Virginia researcher Adrienne Ghaly snapped this photo of a wooly mammoth tusk (circled) found on the Koyukuk River near Coldfoot, Alaska
'You can almost touch the #pleistocene,' Andrienne Ghaly posted with a photo of the ancient tooth stuck in the river muck near the town of Coldfoot
University of Alaska researchers have lashed a woolly mammoth tusk to the bank of the Koyukuk River with ropes so that it doesn't wash away
Remains of woolly mammoths, which went extinct 10,000 years ago, are still be discovered in Alaska
'U Alaska Fairbanks have been monitoring it since it was exposed,' Ghaly tweeted. 'They have a camera on it & tied ropes (the black lines) to it to ensure it doesn't fall into the river. They scanned it to see if there is more #mammoth but no - just one tusk.'
University of Virginia researcher Adrienne Ghaly snapped a photo of mammoth fossil while trekking in Alaska
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