Golf course groundskeeper finds mammoth tooth

[Boo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_mammoth_tooth_find



Sun Aug 23, 9:51 pm ET

SARANAC, Mich. – A golf course groundskeeper recently stumbled onto something unexpected on the greens: A tooth from a 10,000-year-old mammoth. Groundskeeper Patrick Walker found the 10-pound tooth Tuesday when he was on the greens about 30 miles east of Grand Rapids at Morrison Lake Country Club.

The recent high school graduate told The Grand Rapids Press he knew the tooth exposed by recent rains was from an extinct elephant because he paid attention in his science classes.
Research assistant Scott Beld from the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology visited the course and confirmed that Walker's find was a mammoth tooth.

He also visited the site the tooth was found and discovered bones and a portion of a tusk — fossils that will remain in place pending further study.

[Boo]

WOW can you imagine finding something like that? Unreal!

[Wiener]

That goes under the strange but true.   I would much rather find a meterorite, they are worth some money.

[lexiconic]

AW, the heck with the meteorite, just let me find some money! 

[Boo]

AW, the heck with the meteorite, just let me find some money! 

I was thinking the same thing! Now why can't I find an old treasure chest, in my back yard, full of gold coins?