You’re Not Going to Believe What This Woman Found Sticking Out of the Beach in England

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Chris Bien was visiting the beaches of Holland-on-Sea for her birthday when she stumbled across an amazing find. This is what her and her husband say they believe is the fossilized tooth of a mammoth.

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00:00This is Chris Bien, and while she was visiting the beaches of Holland-on-Sea for her birthday,

00:08she stumbled across this amazing find. This is what her and her husband say they believe

00:13is the fossilized tooth of a mammoth. She says she first noticed it poking out of the sand,

00:18so she began scraping around it in an attempt to excavate the tooth.

00:21When that wasn't enough, her husband helped with a small shovel they had brought from home,

00:25eventually unearthing the incredible find. The wildest thing is that the amateur

00:29paleontologists had joked about wanting to find a mammoth tooth just earlier that day.

00:34Mammoths are known to have walked around the UK for nearly 200,000 years before going extinct

00:39more than 3,500 years ago. The one this tooth belonged to was likely a step mammoth,

00:44one of the largest species in its family, and the tooth itself is quite massive.

00:48It's around 7 inches long and weighs nearly 4,500 pounds. What's more, Chris believes this is only

00:54a partial tooth, as some of the chewing plate appears to be missing. Step mammoths were descendants

00:59of the more commonly known woolly mammoth variety.

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