Workers find a pre-historic bone in Corvallis
(JUNE 22, 2021) Workers are in Corvallis. They need to move a gas pipe. They dig up the pipe. They find something unusual.
The workers find an animal bone. However, it is very old. So they stop working.
The workers call a scientist from Oregon State University. The scientist knows the bone. It is the tusk of a woolly mammoth.
A woolly mammoth looks like an elephant. It lived millions of years ago. Now it is extinct. That means no woolly mammoths live today.
The workers leave the bone in the ground. They cover it with dirt. The city and the scientists talk. They will decide later what to do.
Sources:
Day, J. (2021, June 18). Mammoth tusk found at Corvallis construction site. Corvallis Gazette Times. https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/mammoth-tusk-found-at-corvallis-construction-site/article_78366f47-e12b-59f9-a12a-6928bf4b8a65.html
Image: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Day, J. (2021, June 18). Mammoth tusk found at Corvallis construction site. Corvallis Gazette Times. https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/mammoth-tusk-found-at-corvallis-construction-site/article_78366f47-e12b-59f9-a12a-6928bf4b8a65.html
Image: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons