Boy stumbles on strange beach object identified as rare 1.8M-year-old fossil
An 11-year-old boy in England recently made an unusual beach day discovery: an ancient elephant tooth from a species that lived about 1.8 million years ago.Charlie Orchard-Lisle found the tooth at East Lane beach in Bawdsey, a coastal village near Ipswich, Suffolk, in May, news agency SWNS reported.Found near the shoreline, the specimen was later identified as an upper left molar measuring about 4 inches wide.TRAVELERS CAN HUNT FOR MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSILS AND MORE VALUABLE TREASURES IN THESE SP