Jeremiah Longbrake was at his grandmother\u0027s house after school last month when he decided to explore the stream at her property in Oregon.
Johnson, 31, decided to snap some photos and post them on her Facebook page in the hope that someone might be able to identify what Jeremiah had fished out of the stream that afternoon on April 11.Photo by Megan Johnson / Handout“People started commenting, ‘Hey, that looks like a tooth,'” she said, adding that she was confused because it did not look like any tooth she’d seen before.
“We were all pretty shocked and excited,” Johnson said. “We’ve enjoyed rockhounding in our family for years, but nobody has ever found anything like this.”We apologize, but this video has failed to load.O’Grady was also enthusiastic about Jeremiah’s backyard discovery. Johnson had emailed him photos of the grooved tooth after another archaeologist in Oregon referred her to his office.
O’Grady said that Jeremiah was at the right place at the right time to retrieve the fossilized tooth “before it could be lost to the ages.” “They could stand nine feet at the shoulder, and they got up into the 12,000-pound range,” he said. “They were also pretty widespread around this part of the country.”
Jeremiah acknowledged that it would be cool to see a live mammoth, but he said he’s happy with a tooth, even though his friends at school initially thought it was fake when he showed it to them.Jeremiah’s grandmother estimates that the tooth was found about 100 feet from her house. “They ask if we’ve found anything else, but so far, no,” Rhonda Johnson said. “You never know, though. There could be. I’m just happy Jeremiah found [the tooth]. It’s been a lot of fun for him.”
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