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A mammoth molar tooth fossil found by Jack Norton on Trimingham Beach, North Norfolk, England.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Jack Norton, a paleontology student, discovered a mammoth tooth the size of an adult human hand. Fossil teeth of ancient animals from the ice age he found at Trimingham Beach, North Norfolk, English.
Reported from North Norfolk News, the 19-year-old man shared his experience. He said he was speechless and described this experience as once in a lifetime.
“We walked from Mundesley to Trimingham without finding much. “About a mile or two from the Trimingham shoreline, on the shore, I saw roots (teeth) coming from behind some rocks,” Jack Norton told reporters. North Norfolk News.
“I removed the rocks and found a very large mammoth tooth. I was overwhelmed with joy and completely speechless,” he continued.
The University of Portsmouth student further said that thanks to his hobbies and the science of paleontology he studied, he became aware of what type of teeth were found, namely molars. The mammoth molar teeth fossil has the longest angle of 15.5 centimeters with a height of 16 centimeters and a width of 8 centimeters.
Mammoths are a genus of elephants and became one of the popular mammals that lived in the ice age. Quote from Fossilera, mammoths experience a maximum of six sets of teeth change with age.
Mammoth teeth measure about an inch at birth, then 9 to 12 inches in the sixth and final set. Most mammals themselves have a set of primary and permanent teeth. These primary teeth will be lost in adulthood, while the permanent teeth will continue to exist until death.
Meanwhile, the North Norfolk region itself was the best place in English to hunt for fossils, lo. Quoted from Eastern Daily Press, winter is the right time to do this activity.
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Dok. Jack Norton / North Norfolk News
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Jack Norton and his mammoth molar teeth fossils.
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“The best time to hunt for fossils is on a windy day like this, in late winter or spring, when the wind sweeps the fossils from cliffs to shore. But it can be done all year round,” says Dr. David Waterhouse. He is senior curator of natural history and curator of geology for the Norfolk Museums Service to Eastern Daily Press.
The West and East Runton areas are rich in fossils of sea urchins and other marine animals dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. People also usually find prehistoric stone axes made of mammoth bones.
In fact, the West Runton mammoth, which is about 600,000 to 700,000 years old, was discovered by hikers on the beach. The find is scattered across several museums in Norfolk. The mammoth, known as the West Runton Mammoth, belongs to the steppe mammoth species, which is an early mammoth species, larger in size and less hairy. The steppe mammoth lived between 1.8 million or 200 thousand years ago.
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Dr David Waterhouse holds some of the fossils found on beaches in Norfolk.
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“The entire north coast of Norfolk is the best place to find mammoth bones in the country, and the oldest archaeological site in northern Europe is just off the coast in Happisburgh, where the oldest human footprints outside Africa have been found,” said Dr David Waterhouse.
He even appealed to fossil hunters to pay attention to mammoth bone fragments, horns, and tusks from 700,000 years ago. There are 11 discovery points of the Deep History Coast along the coast, along with any information you can look for.
Although most findings can be taken home, Dr. David Waterhouse cautions against digging into the cliffs because West Runton has a guide for fossil hunting.
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