US miners saw a flash of white in the rock, it was an Ice Age mammoth tusk stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Coal miners in North Dakota found something wholly unexpected among the rocks they scooped up and unloaded into a pile—a 7-foot-long tusk of an Ice Age mammoth dead for.
Glen Fifield of the Indiana State Police said that Matthew Reum, a 27-year-old from Mishawaka, Ind., "made it through the night he is alive," after Reum was rescued from his crashed pickup truck where he had been pinned for six days, surviving purely on rainwater.