who had found what he said appeared to be a portion of an ice-age elephant tusk that was exposed in a steep embankment. With help from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Templeton and the ...
It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk. The fossil was intact, making it an “extremely rare find for Mississippi,” the state's Department of Environmental Quality announced on its ...
The paintings include depictions of what appear to be now-extinct animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, and giant sloths and Ice Age horses, researchers say.