News with De La Cruz

WISCONSIN, USA–Three-year-old Kaleb Kidd holds the discovery of his young life, the tooth of a woolly mammoth. The boy came across what he thought was a weird rock while out chasing squirrels with his grandfather, Gary Kidd. Like grandfather, like grandson…the elder Kidd knew exactly what the child had found because he had found the a woolly mammoth’s tooth almost 10 years ago. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse confirmed Kidd’s hunch. The Center’s Director estimates the tooth to be between 10,000 and 30,000 years old.Gary Kidd found his while clamming in the Mississippi River in 1998. That tooth was saturated and fell apart. The younger Kidd’s tooth is well preserved.  Right now, it’s on display at an art gallery, and Kaleb’s not to happy about having to share his treasure.