Ike uncovers mammoth tooth

Paleontologist Jim Westgate holds the tooth

Dorothy Sisk, a homeowner whose beachfront property near Caplen, Texas was destroyed by Hurricane Ike, discovered this football sized tooth that Lamar University paleontolgist Jim Westgate identified as belonging to a Columbian mammoth. The tooth will likely be displayed at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin.  AP story here.

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