Photo: The Inn at Honey Run Facebook
With the school year just around the corner, a 12-year-old Ohio boy will surely have the best item to bring for show-and-tell: an ancient woolly mammoth tooth.
Jason Nies, innkeeper at The Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg, Ohio, was hosting a family reunion on the grounds of the resort in July when relative Jackson Hepner made the exciting discovery.
Hepner was taking a break from family photos when he spotted something partially buried in mud along the edge of Honey Run Creek, the resort said in anews release.
“It was completely out of the water on the creek bed. I would like to have my tooth back in my hands as soon as possible,” he wrote. “I want to show my friends.”
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“We couldn’t be prouder to be the site of such an extraordinary find and unforgettable experience!” the inn wrote.
Woolly mammoths lived during the last ice age, and were likely around the size of African elephants, according toNational Geographic. Like elephants, they had long tusks that they used to fight and dig in the snow. They were also herbivores who ate mostly grass.
source: people.com
