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Construction workers digging in Seattle's south Lake Union area have found a tusk from an ice age mammoth, according to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
KIRO-TV reports that the construction workers stopped digging when they found the fossil and called the museum. Since the fossil was found on private property, it's up to the landowner to decide what to do with the tusk.
Christian Sidor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, said Tuesday that museum experts have examined the fossil .
"We are confident that it represents a tusk from an ice age mammoth," Sidor said. “The discovery of a mammoth tusk in south Lake Union is a rare opportunity to directly study Seattle’s ancient natural history. As a public repository, the Burke Museum would be pleased to curate
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/12/fossil-unearthed-by-seattle-construction-workers-is-mammoth-tusk/
just in time.
KIRO-TV reports that the construction workers stopped digging when they found the fossil and called the museum. Since the fossil was found on private property, it's up to the landowner to decide what to do with the tusk.
Christian Sidor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, said Tuesday that museum experts have examined the fossil .
"We are confident that it represents a tusk from an ice age mammoth," Sidor said. “The discovery of a mammoth tusk in south Lake Union is a rare opportunity to directly study Seattle’s ancient natural history. As a public repository, the Burke Museum would be pleased to curate
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/12/fossil-unearthed-by-seattle-construction-workers-is-mammoth-tusk/
just in time.
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