Michigan boy finds “dragon teeth” belonging to Mastodon
A Michigan boy was recently hiking with his family when he set foot in a stream and came across something rocky that resembled teeth.At first he thought it belonged to a dinosaur, but paleontologists later found a giant mole. Mastodon..
Six-year-old Julian Gagneon found a tooth on a walk in the Dinosaur Hill Nature Reserve in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on September 6. WDIV Local 4 reported October 1st.
“I felt something on my leg, so I grabbed it,” Julian told WDIV. A Google search at home suggested that the teeth were likely not dinosaurs (or dragons, as Ganyon guessed), According to Michigan Live). Rather, the size and shape of the teeth resemble those of Mastodon’s teeth, and analysis by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Paleontology Museum (UMMP) later confirmed that this was the case, WDIV reports. bottom.
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Mastodon is an ancient relative of the modern elephant. They first appeared about 27 to 30 million years ago and became extinct about 10,000 years ago. They live in forests around the world, mainly in North and Central America, and are about 8-10 feet (2.5-3 meters) high and weigh 6 tons (5.4 meters). According to the San Diego Natural History Museum..
The mole crown found by Julian was about the size of an adult human fist and excluded many small species, UMMP collection manager Adam Rowntree told Michigan Live. The crown topping was a “tall ridge” that distinguishes between mastodon teeth and mastodon teeth. MammothRountrey, another species of extinct ice age elephant relatives who lived with Mastodon, added.
Julian determined that this discovery was the first of his “career” as a paleontologist, and his mother, Mary Gagneon, told Michigan Live. A hopeful young scientist also wondered if he would receive a million dollars for his discovery or become president, but a behind-the-scenes tour of the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor Research Museum Center and museum paleontologists. I settled down at a meeting with scholars. Michigan Live reported.
Originally published in Live Science.
Michigan boy finds “dragon teeth” belonging to Mastodon
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