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royable

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3. How would a mammoth tusk get 200 miles offshore?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 07:36 PM

Nov 2021

A mammoth stuck on an ice floe? Live mammoth caught in a riptide current or washed off shore from a tsunami, or a dead mammoth body washed down a river, and carried out to sea? Tusk clenched in the teeth of a shark as a keepsake? Sharknado? Ancient astronauts? Giant fusion-powered albatrosses? The mind reels.

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Ancient mammoth tusk discovered 10,000 feet deep in ocean off California coast [View all] left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 OP

In the ocean! bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #1

In the Pacific Ocean ? left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 #2

How would a mammoth tusk get 200 miles offshore? royable Nov 2021 #3

K&R BlueJac Nov 2021 #4