A man from Alberta discovered a prehistoric mammoth tusk in yard on Saddle Lake Cree Nation
Jarrod Cardinal from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, northeast of Edmonton, was digging a hole for a project in his yard when his shovel struck a hard object roughly six feet in the ground. “I didn’t really know what is was at first,” Jarrod Cardinal said, not thinking much of it.
The object looked like wood and felt like bone. Pictures of the mystery find were sent to a paleontologist at the University of Alberta. Not only is it old but it comes from an animal you only see or hear about in museums.
“An expert verified and they told us it was a mammoth tusk. He’s an expert in that field and right away he said it was authentic,” Cardinal said.
The vast majority of woolly mammoths have been extinct for about 11,000 years, since the end of the last ice age.
