Coal miners in North Dakota discover 7-foot mammoth tusk in incredible condition
The ivory tusk weighs more than 50 pounds and has been buried for an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 years.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 2:45 PM CST January 7, 2024
Updated: 2:45 PM CST January 7, 2024
BISMARCK, N.D. — The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift, eyeing a glint of white-

That would be the coolest thing to find. Except maybe a vein of gold on your own property.

Or oil.

Osky

I'd Say Gold...

Or a stop to the mining due to fossils like that present. Have a friend that ran a big hoe working on placing wind turbines along the Columbia River. He dug up a chunk of mammoth one day. Boss told him to bury it and not to talk
About it. Site would have been shut down.

Mammoth tusks, bones, and teeth are a common find here and worth good money. We go mammoth hunting every summer.....

A little more information can be found at- https://apnews.com/article/north-da...ntology-3fc986cc553553cade8c12628a93cdb6

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-dakota-mammoth-fossil-coal-miners-paleontology-geological-survey/

1% of the oil revenue goes to scientific work
40 years ago when I was on a site discovery near Dickinson ND stumbled on a major animal burial site 20 + animals in a area buried in the side of a hill. 10-15 million years old
funding was given to the Museum of Man and Nature because many ND people visit it and there was not a paleo guy in their department yet
3 years later the volunteers at the museum finished the material and this went back to ND then

I only found the site cause we were digging a tortoise shell out and needed water, so down hill 800 yds to truck or 2 mile walk around, so the down hill trip there was lots of bones in the sandstone layers

when you have a flood many animals die and swirl around in eddies and sometimes are covered before scavangers clean up everything and this was one of those sites

This sorta blows the manmade global warming theory all to pieces. Earth's been warming up for 10000 years. Imagine that!

Not really. Nobody denies that the earth has been warming for 10,000 years. Climate science shows that CO2 and such being pumped into the atmosphere is artificially increasing the rate of warming. Where the leftist nonsense and panic comes in is whether or not the warming matters, and the effects of the warming.

You do realize that 1 large forest fire(Canadian) past couple years, or 1 large volcanic explosion dwarfs what mankind does for decades right? But we are in charge correct…

Of course forest fires and volcanos pump out CO2. Nobody said they don't. That doesn't mean that humans don't also pump CO2 as well.

Oh, and your statistic about forest fires is wrong. Forest fires put out a lot of CO2 every year, but not enough to "dwarf what mankind does for decades". All the forest fires in the world last year pumped out less CO2 than what China pumped out last year.

An estimated 10,000 to 100,000 years old? They can't narrow it down any more than that?

Science doesn't say that , Science says co2 levels rise "following" temp rise. Science says that we "need" atleast .022% co2 for plant life, also says we are at.035% + or-. Science does not say what level of co2 or what temp is optimum. Science also says that sunspot activity most likely is the biggest driver of temps. I am not blind to air pollution and in no way understating its effects, however, The real science has spoken.

that was the period of the last ice age <100,000 years starting

WOW!!! That thing is almost as old as Demented Joe Biden!!!

Looks like he broke it with the bucket.
Its pretty common here. I am just shipping this piece out to an auction.

That’d be a neat find, had that been during the day the operator may have missed it.

Very cool