{"id":1017661,"date":"2022-03-10T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/look-new-england-fishermen-reel-in-12000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-tooth\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:14:30","slug":"look-new-england-fishermen-reel-in-12000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/look-new-england-fishermen-reel-in-12000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: New England fishermen reel in 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/New-England-fishermen-reel-in-12000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-tooth.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The crew of a New Hampshire fishing boat was dredging for scallops when they pulled up something unexpected: a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth.<\/p>\n<p>The Portsmouth-based crew, known as the New England Fishmongers, said the 11-inch-long tooth was found off the coast of Newburyport, Mass.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tim Rider, captain and co-owner of the New England Fishmongers, took the 7-pound item to the University of New Hampshire, where experts identified it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always love thinking about the landscape in New England,&#8221; UNH Geology Professor Will Clyde told NBC Boston. &#8220;With mammoths and mastodons walking around, and in terms of geological times, that wasn&#8217;t that long ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rider said he has decided to auction the tooth on eBay and donate the proceeds to World Central Kitchen, a charity working to provide hot meals to refugees from the violence in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a fisherman, but anytime you see families and children struggling in that type of situation, you really try to be thankful for what you have and do what you can to help,&#8221; Rider told Seacoastonline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 10 (UPI) &#8212; The crew of a New Hampshire fishing boat was dredging for scallops when they pulled up something unexpected: a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth. The Portsmouth-based crew, known as the New England Fishmongers, said the 11-inch-long tooth was found off the coast of Newburyport, Mass. Advertisement Tim Rider, captain and co-owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1017662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}