The person who discovered the mastodon tooth initially mistook it for driftwood, and it has taken a media blitz and a jogger to find it again. Read the article to learn more.
The 12,000-year-old mastodon tooth that six-year-old Julian Gagnon found while hiking with his family is now in the care of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.
Massive beasts like mammoth, mastodon and saber-toothed tiger suddenly vanished around 10,000 BC together with Clovis people at the end of the last ice age - nobody knows why.