A tooth of mammoth, discovered in Neftekamsk, will be sent to National Museum RB for investigations

The stone fragment, weighing 6kg and discovered in the town of Neftekamsk, turned out to be a mammoth’s tooth. In the nearest future the tooth will be passed to the specialists of the National Museum RB for further investigations.

A worker of one local building company discovered this unusual finding in the crushed stone, delivered for the town from the banks of Kama-river. Specialists conjectured that this fossil could be the mammoth’s remains.

“The museum’s collection keeps many such exhibits” – senior researcher of Neftekamsk local lore museum Gulfina Akhkamova reported to the news agency “Bashinform” – “But we have no doubts that this is a tooth and not a fragment of the upper jaw. Several years ago similar finding had been deposited to the museum and later the specialists confirmed it was a mammoth’s tooth”.