A 33-year-old paleontologist named Jamie Jordan discovered a four-foot-long mammoth tusk in a quarry 90 miles north of London. The tusk, estimated to be 450,000 years old, was found during a routine visit to the quarry. It has been taken to Jamie's Fossils Galore center in Cambridgeshire for research and preservation. The mammoth would have been much larger than a modern-day elephant, standing up to 13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons. The team will study the tusk's rings to learn about the mammoth's habitat and look for signs of predation.

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