WFAA reported the story yesterday. Really just wanted to repost it because I love the look on the face of Ruben Marroquin of Kessler Park when reporter David Schechter tells him what this mysterious bone, which the fellow had found 25 years ago, is.
A wooly mammoth.
“What is that?” asked Marroquin. “Is it bigger than a rabbit?”
Much.
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Read the front page of the January 23, 1936 Dallas Morning News for an older story. That area has long been a source of mammoth and indian stuff. The terraces along the river are full of it. They found a mammoth when excavating the Dallas North Tollroad @ the Katy Trail in the 1960s. From the old Baby Does overlook looking out over the river you can see Coombes Creek, a V-cut in the Oak Cliffs(for lack of a better term). Old Parkland, The Stoneleigh, The West End were all once covered with it. Should be along Turtle Creek somewhere down near Reverchon Park, a spot where fern imprint fossils cover the creekbed.
Yo David, you need to get that tooth platinumized with mad amounts of diamonds encrusted on it, clasped to a tizzy izzy tight platinum herringbone. Holla at ya boy. Peace, and i’m out!
I’ll notify the ex so she can footnote her genealogy research.
That look, just like the tooth, is priceless.