400,000-year-old mammoth tusks discovered

A resident of Siberia (Russia) while digging the soil to plant vegetables in his garden unearthed a pair of ancient mammoth tusks dating back about 400,000 years.

According to The Siberian Times, a resident of the village of Oy in the Yakutia region discovered this special pair of elephant tusks while digging his potato and cabbage garden.

The pair of elephant tusks revealed is very impressive - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

These tusks came from a steppe mammoth, an extinct species of ancient elephant, measuring 270cm in length and about half a meter in diameter at the base!

This steppe mammoth predated the woolly mammoth that was famous in the Yakutia region, also known as the Sakha Republic.

Woolly mammoth remains are common in Yakutia, but traces of steppe mammoths are particularly rare and also date back much older, possibly as much as 400,000 years.

The base of the ivory tusk is up to half a meter in diameter - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

Local historian Prokopiy Nagovitsyn was part of the expedition that came to investigate the archaeological discovery, which he described as "extremely special".

"For obvious reasons we will not provide the exact location or name of the person who discovered the archaeological evidence. We have been invited to assess the matter. A team of paleontologists is also on their way to conduct further research," he said.

Details will be announced soon.

However, Mr. Prokopiy Nagovitsyn said: "These are tusks of a steppe mammoth, so this archaeological discovery dates back about 400,000 years."

Measuring the length of the newly discovered ivory tusk - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

In 2015, an intact skeleton of a steppe mammoth was found in the Nizhny Bestyakh region of Yakutia.

According to Khoahoc.tv