An construction worker made a 'once in a lifetime' discovery when he found a massive wooly mammoth tooth while working on a community college site, crediting his two sons and their love of dinosaurs for giving him the knowledge to identify the fossil. Father-of-two Justin Blauwet made a 'once-in-a-lifetime' discovery on March 4 while performing construction observation on a lift station project for DGR Engineering on property owned by Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, said in a news release. Blauwet spotted the 11.2-pound woolly mammoth tooth laying on the ground, clearly exposed during excavation and said he was able to identify the tooth because of his interest in fossils and pre-historic animals
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