In Ohio, an 12-year-old boy found the tooth of an animal that lived 4 thousands of years ago

An 12-year-old boy discovered a molar (a type of tooth) of a woolly mammoth at a resort in Millersburg, northeast Ohio. Writes about it Fox News.

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“Twelve-year-old Jackson spotted the tooth near Honey Run Creek during a family photo shoot. This discovery was recognized by several scientists as the 3rd upper molar of a woolly mammoth,” the resort said.

During a break in the photo shoot, Jackson Hepner noticed something sticking out of the stream.

“I found a giant tooth ten yards (9 m) upstream from the bridge where we had a photo shoot,” Hepner writes in an account of the discovery. — He was partially in the water on the left side of the stream. It was completely in the creek bed.”

Experts have confirmed that this is the tooth of a woolly mammoth.

The resort published a photo of the unique find on its page Facebook.

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“The teeth of woolly mammoths are distinguished by parallel scars that the animals used to grind grass and seeds,” the resort hotel wrote in a statement. “We can be proud to be the site of such an extraordinary find and unforgettable experience!”

Woolly mammoths became extinct over 4000 years ago.

In 2012, almost the entire skeleton of a woolly mammoth was excavated in France, to the great pleasure of archaeologists. However, such finds are more common in Siberia, where frozen remains were discovered several times.

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Excavations of the well-preserved remains of woolly mammoths and advances in genetic research have led to the debate that long-extinct animals can be cloned. Nevertheless, from an ethical point of view, this issue is hotly debated, critics say that such resources are better spent on existing animals.

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