What big teeth you have!
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Researchers dig up mastodon teeth in a yard in New York. (New York Museum) -
The home owner first thought the teeth were baseballs. They are fossils! (New York Museum) -
A man cleans a mastodon jawbone. He works in front of the skeleton of another mastodon. He is at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (AP/Mark Duncan) -
A man inspects a mastodon exhibit in Ohio. Look at those huge teeth! (AP/Jay LaPrete) -
Mastodons are similar to woolly mammoths. (AP/Jay LaPrete) -
A woman and her grandson look at a mastodon exhibit at the Illinois State Museum. (AP/Seth Perlman)
What are those white bumps in the back yard? Some people thought they were baseballs. They are teeth.
They are from a mastodon (MA-stuh-don). That creature looked like an elephant. It had long tusks.
Pray: Thank God for fossils buried in yards. Thank Him for what they teach us about history.
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A husband and wife in New York were taking care of their yard in September. They spotted something poking through plants. Was it baseballs? They looked closer. Were those fossils? They took them to an archaeologist named Dr. Cory Harris. He thought the couple might have weird rocks. They had mastodon teeth! Researchers went digging. They found a complete mastodon jaw. They also found part of a rib and a toe bone. Mastodons were a lot like mammoths. They lived long ago.
“In His hand is the life of every living thing.” (Job 12:10)
