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Kiley Price

400,000-year-old mammoth tusk found sticking out of the ground in English quarry

A beagle with a tusk bone

A fossil hunter has discovered a mammoth tusk that is believed to be more than 400,000 years old sticking out of a rocky quarry in east England. 

The tusk, which is roughly 4 feet (1.2 meters) long, belonged to a steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) — the second-largest species of mammoth that ever roamed Earth. 

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