Ike Hurricane Exposes Mammoth Tooth

After Hurricane Ike destroyed her house on the beach in Caplen, on the ravaged Bolivar Peninsula in Texas, paleontologist Dorothy Sisk discovered the fossilized remains of a mammoth tooth. Soon after the disaster, Dorothy Sisk asked her colleague, Jim Westgate, a trained paleon... [ read more >> ]

Jim Westgate and the mammoth tooth

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Jim Westgate and the mammoth tooth