Mammoth Discovery

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Two boys make a "mammoth" discovery in Oregon


http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_060407_news_fossil_find.153c9882.html


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By NICK BRADSHAW, kgw.com Staff

A pair of McMinnville boys made a mammoth discovery along the Yamhill River last week, literally.

McMinnville News Register

10-year-old Charlie Gilpin (right) and Bryant Ashton found the mammoth fossil while exploring.

According to the McMinnville News Register, the two 10-year-olds were out exploring when they stumbled upon a strange looking stone.

That stone turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a wooly mammoth.

The newspaper reports Charlie Gilpin and Bryant Ashton took their find to Geologist Bill Orr who recognized the specimen as a rear molar of the ancient elephant-like mammoth.

Orr, the director of the Oregon State Museum of Fossils and author of the "Handbook of Oregon Plant and Animal Fossils" told the paper the boys had found a lower left molar of an ancient mammoth. e said the fossil is probably between 12,000 and 15,000 years-old.

The paper reports that scientists will likely go back to the site of the find and look for more fossils.