Mike and Padi Anderson's trawler brings up fish, shrimp, scallops, squid -- and now, a woolly mammoth tooth. The New Hampshire couple acquired the Pleistocene prize on Feb. 19, when Mike found it in a pile of scallop shells and rocks that had been picked up in the boat's nets.
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"We knew right off it was a tooth because it has a nerve at the top," Mike told local news website Seacoast Online.
The five-inch-long object was a tooth all right, but it wasn't immediately clear who the tooth had belonged to. Another member of the boat's crew got in touch with Dr. William Clyde, a geologist at the University of New Hampshire, who had a possible answer. Dr. Clyde said he would have to look more closely to confirm, but that the tooth might have belonged to a mammoth.