A University of researcher trekking in the remote Yukon area of stumbled across an enormous woolly mammoth tusk protruding from dirt of the Koyukuk River bank last week.'You can almost touch the #pleistocene,' UVA Environmental Humanities research specialist Adrienne Ghaly posted with a photo of the ancient tooth stuck in the river muck near the town of Coldfoot.She said that the University of Alaska Fairbanks had first discovered the massive fossil - mammoths went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago - a year or two ago and had fastened it to the river bank with ropes.
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