Swiss kayaker stumbles on 20,000-year-old mammoth tooth

An amateur Swiss fossil hunter has discovered a tooth from a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth while taking a river trip in his kayak. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Enrico Cavedon discovered the mammoth tooth on the Limmat River near to Baden, in canton Aargau. Cavedon spotted the strange-looking object with grooves embedded in the riverbank. Because he is interested in rocks and fossils, Cavedon immediately suspected it could be a mammoth tooth. At home, he sits down at the computer and does some research. His suspicions are confirmed: the find is a mammoth molar. “I was as happy as a child who had found a treasure,” he says in a video on the social media channels of the Naturama natural history museum in Aarau. Naturama’s Alexandra Wegmann was amazed by the discovery. People usually come across such objects in gravel pits or construction pits," he said. Estimated age Examinations show that it is the molar of a woolly mammoth that probably died quite ...