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1:38 TUSK HUNTERS 1-1-1-1-1 There's little joy at the site in Wise County where officials of the Children's Museum ix of Fort Worth have been trying to recover some mammoth tusks. For two days, Mrs. Betty Erie and Glenn Patterson have * laboriously uncovered and plastered two tusks uncovered by a road crew digging for gravel. The find was made on the Oliver J. Currie farm near Rhome, and Mrs. Erie estimates the fossils are M 10-to-15-thousand years old. What made the tusks unusual was their size, more than 10 feet long. But the first tusk, when it was removed, shattered and now there's fear the second may meet the same fate. The plaster was applied because such finds decay rapidly when exposed to air. Mrs. Erie says it's too bad they didn't find the mammoth's skull. and it's . The trench digger probably broke it up, believed the skull now is part of some Wise County
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about continued efforts to excavate woolly mammoth tusks.
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