Thursday, February 28, 2013

New Hampshire Fisherman Scoops Up Mammoth Tooth

[Live Science]  The shrimp and scallop fisherman says he has pulled up "whale vertebrae, porpoise skulls, an old fuel tank that he thought was a treasure chest, and even the body of a drowned kayaker," SeacoastOnline.com reports. But last week, while dredging for scallops, he and his crew noticed something odd among the rocks and scallops: a 6-inch (15-centimeter)-long, triangular, grooved object that he identified immediately as a tooth.