Hurricane Ike yields fossil in yard
- added October 11, 2008
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- itenerantsurf
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Paleontologist Jim Westgate shows a fossil tooth of a mammoth found in the debris from Hurricane Ike.
Dorothy Sisk and Jim Westgate are scientists at Lamar University. They discovered the fossil tooth in the front yard of Sisk's home in Caplen on the devastated Bolivar Peninsula.
Westgate believes the fossil is from a Columbian mammoth common in North America until around 10,000 years ago.
The tooth looks like a series of boot soles or slices of bread wedged together. It is expected to be sent to the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin.
More than 1 million people fled the Texas coast because of Hurricane Ike.
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- itenerantsurf
- 1 month ago
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Every cloud...
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- phillyharper
- 1 month ago
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Too bad we can't rip up the entire U.S. just to do a fossil hunt. Lol...maybe not, I kinda need my house.
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- dragon1984
- 1 month ago
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It amazes me that the Columbian mammoth was still around 10,000 years ago.
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Out of the rubble comes trubble.
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Hey! All that washed up in my yard was a traffic light! Lucky!
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- Johnny_Danger
- 1 month ago
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if only everyone could find some cool fossil in there back yard...too bad some of us would probably just think it's just a rock.
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- curiositykills68
- 1 month ago
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cool story.
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- Meteorologist90
- 1 month ago
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Too perfect.
Of all the places to find a fossil, on the destroyed property of a PALEONTOLOGIST?!
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Sounds too suspicious
(AKA) he probably had possession of it, he knew he was not supposed to keep it.
Since his house was destroyed the cleanup crew/neighbor/or co-worker had seen knew what it was and when confronted about it.
He gave some magical fairy tale as if it was the wizard of Oz was giving the Paleontologist a fossil right in his own yard just to save his skin.
He sure does find alot of teeth with a big variety along the coast line of texas http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070409161526.htm
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- Laser_PewPew
- 1 month ago
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