A man who was exploring in Madison County, Mississippi, found a 7-foot, Ice Age-era Columbian mammoth tusk before scientists arrived to evaluate the rare discovery.
An avid artifact and fossil collector recently came across a stunning discovery before alerting the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality . Eddie Templeton found a portion of an Ice Age-era, Columbian mammoth tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County. DEQ’s Mississippi State Geological Survey scientists worked with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science to properly excavate and stabilize the tusk.
Templeton and the team spent an entire day cleaning the tusk to expose the 7-foot-long ivory fossil. 'It was suspected based on the strong curvature of the massive tusk that Eddie and the team were dealing with a Columbian mammoth and not that of the more common mastodon. This would be the first of its kind for the area,' said a MDEQ press release. Mississippi Museum of Natural Science paleontologists confirmed the tusk did belong to a mammoth.
Fox News Digital reached out to the MDEQ and Eddie Templeton for additional comment.
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