Tim Ryder reeled in a well-preserved woolly mammoth tooth while fishing for scallops.
Captain Tim Ryder was fishing for scallops when he found something much rarer—and more valuable—a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth. Mr Ryder, part of a crew called the New England Fishmongers, was fishing off the coast of Newburyport, Massachusetts, last December when he made an unusual catch, reports NBC News, He has now put the woolly mammoth tooth up for auction and will donate the proceeds to support people in war-torn Ukraine.
According to NBC News, New England Fishmongers captain and co-owner Mr Ryder took his catch at the University of New Hampshire, where experts identified it as the tooth of a woolly mammoth that roamed the Earth thousands of years ago.
“It’s big enough,” University of New Hampshire professor Will Clyde said of the 11-inch artifact.
He said that while other fishermen have also caught up in the fossils, none are as preserved as Mr. Ryder.
“I’ve always liked to think of the landscape in New England in which mammoths and mastodons roam, and in terms of geological time, that was not that long ago,” he said.
Woolly giant tooth put up for auction EBAY, where it has already received more than 50 bids. At the time of writing, the highest bid was $7,300 (over Rs 5.5 lakh).
All proceeds from the auction will go to World Central Kitchen, an organization working to provide food to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
“We found out what it was from Google,” said Mr. Ryder beach line, “Since then, we’ve allowed kids and families to come in and see it and talk about it. Basically everyone asked what we were going to do with it and everything in the world right now.” ..the best thing was to donate it to charity.”
The woolly mammoth, a distant relative of today’s elephants, became extinct about 4,000 years ago.
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