Toothy find: Three-year-old Caleb Kidd found a wooly mammoth tooth similar to this one earlier this week while playing outside near La Crosse, Wisc.Who says paleontologists need to have fancy college degrees to find remnants of ancient animals?

A three-year-old boy in La Crosse, Wisc., earlier this week, while chasing squirrels, found a strange rock that turned out to be a wooly mammoth tooth.

And here’s the real odd twist. His grandfather, who was with Caleb Kidd at the time, found a similar mammoth tooth nine years ago.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse have confirmed that it is indeed a mammoth tooth. It weighs about two pounds and has dimensions of six inches by three inches. Researchers figure that it’s between 10,000 and 30,000 years old.

Tags : paleontology, wooly mammoth, mammoth tooth, La Crosse

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