12-4-2018
LANGLEY, Wash. — An 8-month-old puppy digging a hole in a Langley backyard has made a 13,000-year-old discovery.
Kirk Lacewell says he thought it was unusual that his Labrador Retriever Scout carried around what appeared to be a piece of wood or rock for a couple of days.
Lacewell sent photographs of the object to the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle.
KOMO reports that paleontologists concluded it was the tooth of a woolly mammoth, an extinct elephant relative that roamed thousands of years ago.
The fossilized tooth now sits on the mantle where Scout can no longer get to it.