Puppy digs up woolly mammoth tooth on Whidbey Island
WHIDBEY ISLAND — A yellow pup named Scout recently discovered a mighty old bone in his back yard near downtown Langley.
What Scout’s owner, Kirk Lacewell, thought was a rock in his puppy’s mouth turned out to be a small part of a fossilized tooth from a woolly mammoth.
University of Washington paleontologists estimate the tooth to be about 13,000 years old, when the furry tusked creatures roamed Whidbey Island.
“Quite a few mammoth teeth and some bones have been found on Whidbey, which is largely composed of Ice Age sediments,” said Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, curator of paleontology at UW’s Burke Museum.
Scout, an energetic and extra-friendly yellow Labrador retriever, was a mere 5 months old when he sunk his teeth into the tidbit of old tooth — a whole tooth would be twice the size of Scout’s head.
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