In case you missed it in the morning news, construction workers down in South Lake Union have unearthed a MAMMOTH TUSK! Sweet.
The tusk is very rare, but similar tusks and mammoth teeth found in Washington have made the Columbian mammoth the state fossil.
Workers with Transit Plumbing were excavating a construction site Tuesday in the city’s South Lake Union area when they hit something hard and uncovered the tusk. Owner Jeff Estep says they stopped work and called the experts.
Paleontologists from the Burke Museum hope to move the tusk up to the UW campus, but it’s up to the owner of the property where the tusk was found to decide what happens to it.
More on this exciting local prehistoric news here, here, and here!
Thanks to Levi and all the Slog-tippers who sent this my way!