Paleontologist's Stunning Discovery: Four-Foot-Long Mammoth Tusk Found Intact in Quarry

A 33-year-old paleontologist, Jamie Jordan, has made an incredible discovery after spotting a four-foot-long mammoth tusk in a quarry in England. Jordan, who frequently leads fossil-finding tours at the quarry, stumbled upon the 450,000-year-old steppe mammoth tusk during a routine visit. He was amazed to find that the tusk was still intact and had not been broken up during the quarrying process. The tusk has been transported to Jordan's Fossils Galore center in Cambridgeshire, where it will be researched and preserved. The Fossils Galore team will spend six months working on the preservation of the tusk, after which they will examine it to learn more about the mammoth's life. The mammoth, which lived during the last ice age, would have been much larger than modern-day elephants, standing up to 13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons. Jordan expects to learn a lot about the mammoth's life by looking at the rings of the tusk, which will indicate the quality of habitat and food supply available to the animal. In addition to the mammoth tusk, the Fossils Galore team is also analyzing a skeleton of an Iguanodon dinosaur that lived over 100 million years ago. The team discovered the skeleton in Surrey in 2017 and a nearly complete skeleton of a Plesiosaur in 2008. Jordan's Fossils Galore center offers a range of activities for families, including fossil hunting and cracking open geodes, allowing children to become the paleontologists of the future.