I'm optimistic that I'll find a mammoth tooth." Templeton told CNN, "It was exciting to find a big piece of a tusk, certainly. But it was particularly exciting that it was a mammoth. After the ...
A woolly mammoth ... long tusk was discovered in the former Oxbow open cast mine near Temple Newsam, in Leeds, in the 1960s. Museum records detail how the tusk, which is in two pieces, was found ...