Guess what he found!
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Scientist Jeff Person sits behind a seven-foot mammoth tusk. The tusk is wrapped in plastic to keep it safe. (AP/Jack Dura) -
Coal miners dug up the tusk from an old streambed in North Dakota. (Coleman Fredricks via AP) -
Mr. Person looks at mammoth bones wrapped in plastic. More than 20 bones have been found. (AP/Jack Dura) -
Mammoths were about 12 to 14 feet tall. How tall are you? (Christophe Michel/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)
Dig. Dump. Dig. A man used a big truck shovel. It dumped dirt. Wait a minute. There is something white. That is not dirt.
It is a mammoth’s tusk!
Pray: Thank God for treasures we can dig up from long ago.
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Miners dig for coal in Beulah, North Dakota. Last May they worked in an old streambed. They dug about 40 feet deep. Up came a mound of soil. They were about to flatten it when they spotted something. It was a seven-foot-long mammoth tusk. Stop the digging! They called in experts. Scientists say the tusk is thousands of years old. People kept exploring. They found more than 20 bones. There was a shoulder blade, ribs, a tooth, and parts of hips.
“Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations.” (Deuteronomy 32:7)
