An unusual discovery in the stream. It is more than two meters high.

Eddie Templeton is an avid collector of artifacts and fossils.While exploring the Madison County countryside, he came across what appeared to be a protrusion. A piece of elephant tusk from the Ice Age.

The man immediately contacted the government survey’s paleontology team. They also provided assistance. Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences Providing the necessary materials to properly excavate and stabilize the discovery.

The discoverer and his team of paleontologists worked all day manually removing the muddy sand from the find, and thanks to this they were able to extract the tusk, which is more than two meters long, intact from the mud.

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According to George Phillips of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, It is a Colombian mammoth tusk, Related to the woolly mammoth. These animals lived in the late Pleistocene epoch, so their fossils may be between 11,700 and 75,000 years old.

The Columbian mammoth was much larger than the woolly mammoth, which roamed the cold northern regions of North America. These mammals played an important role in maintaining a rich and fertile ecosystem in the prairies, just as their modern elephant relatives do in other parts of the world.

Eddie Templeton’s discovery is the first of its kind in the entire region. The Columbian mammoth may have weighed Bonad 10 tons It can grow up to Height 4 metersThe exhibit went to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences.