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novapsycheMammoth Skull Discovered Near Gulf Coast
The skull of a woolly mammoth unearthed here has been tentatively dated to an age of 38,000 years, paleontologists say.
The remains were unearthed in a sand pit by Texas A&M University students and the Brazosport Archaeological Society. No mammoths had earlier been discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast, Brian Miles, paleontology curator at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, told The Brazosport Facts in Tuesday's online edition.
[...] A backhoe operator, Joe Kimble, said he was working in the pit in November 2003 when he came across a tusk, said Kenny Vernor, president of Vernor Material and Equipment Co. Kimble, 46, ran into a single tusk, but the scientific community had little interest in the discovery, said Vernor.
But he found a pair of tusks a short distance away about a week later. Researchers were down the next day, Vernor said.
The skull of a woolly mammoth unearthed here has been tentatively dated to an age of 38,000 years, paleontologists say.
The remains were unearthed in a sand pit by Texas A&M University students and the Brazosport Archaeological Society. No mammoths had earlier been discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast, Brian Miles, paleontology curator at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, told The Brazosport Facts in Tuesday's online edition.
[...] A backhoe operator, Joe Kimble, said he was working in the pit in November 2003 when he came across a tusk, said Kenny Vernor, president of Vernor Material and Equipment Co. Kimble, 46, ran into a single tusk, but the scientific community had little interest in the discovery, said Vernor.
But he found a pair of tusks a short distance away about a week later. Researchers were down the next day, Vernor said.