14 DAY TRIAL // Workers on a construction site in San Francisco recently discovered the 10-inch (25-centimeter) tooth of a woolly mammoth. The artifact is in relatively good condition, albeit broken in half. A portion of it is missing, and could not be found in subsequent digs.
Scientists estimate that the tooth is around 11,000 years old. The most amazing thing about this finding is that the object still has enamel in it. The tooth itself is the color of mud, experts who've had a chance to examine it say, quoted by the Daily Mail.
“I was excavating using a hammer grab and going through a layer of sand, when suddenly I noticed some strange object that came out. It looked too perfect to be a rock,” said crane operator Brandon Valasik, the one who found the tooth on Monday.
This is not the first archaeological finding to be made at this site. Previously, workers found a gold nugget and some remnants from Irish neighborhoods that existed here in the 1800s.