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To the untrained eye, it may have looked like a giant wood log. In reality, scientists had spotted something unusual off the California coast two years ago: a 3-foot (1-meter) long mammoth tusk.
In the deep sea, marine scientists discovered a three-foot-long tusk from an extinct mammoth some 10,000 feet beneath the ocean. Researchers collected the specimen off the California coast in 2021.
Deep beneath the ocean a team of scientists have made a surprising find.
A 100,000-year-old mammoth tusk has been discovered by a robot off the California coast. What on Earth was it doing there?
Randy Prickett (left) pilots the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts while MBARI Senior Scientist Steven