Saturday, October 04, 2008

Sounds Like the Opening Scene in a Classic Mystery Novel

ke leaves debris, mammoth tooth in Caplen front yard | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "CAPLEN�— A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.

Dorothy Sisk and her colleague, Lamar University paleontologist Jim Westgate, visited her Bolivar Peninsula home after Ike hit. Together they found something unusual in Sisk's front yard: a 6-pound fossil tooth.

Westgate believes the fossil is from a Columbian mammoth common in North America until around 10,000 years ago."

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