🐘🦥 For #FossilFriday: an account of a mammoth mystery. This is the Franklin Street tooth, the first of twelve specimens discovered in New Ulm, Minnesota. Found in 1912 buried in glacial drift, it is the earliest known discovery.

Discoveries in New Ulm continue to this day! To read more about the first “dirty dozen” proboscidean finds, check out Lost Bones #3 (one of the free articles) on my Substack.

https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-3-cant-spot-the-bison

#Pleistocene #NewUlm #Mammoth #Palaeontology #Molar #CitizenScience

Two words: Root canal
Shockwaves to the dental-shy
It's drill baby, drill

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Dental #Dentist #Procedure #Root #Canal #Tooth #Teeth #Pain #Drill #Molar

May 21, 2025

This mystery mammoth molar was donated to the Pope County Historical Society in Glenwood, Minnesota, along with a large bison skullcap and another mammoth molar.

I am actively investigating its discovery location, along with several other donations. Check the link in my profile to uncover more stories of 'lost' Pleistocene specimens, where I’ve pieced together the details of their discovery and preservation.

https://popecountymuseum.com

#Pleistocene #Mammoth #Molar #Paleontology #CitizenScience

It’s a #LostBones #FossilFriday 🦥🐴🐪🐘 🐟 This mammoth molar's dentin/enamel plates have separated. It was found in a gravel pit on a farm in Nora Township by a Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew in November 1941.

If placed together in its original form, it measures about 14cm x 14cm. It is now housed in the Pope County Historical Society Museum in Glenwood, MN.

https://popecountymuseum.com

#Mammoth #Paleontology #LostBones #CitizenScience #Pleistocene #Molar #Fossils

It’s a #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐘 🦥🐴🐪🐟 This mammoth specimen is not from #Minnesota, but you can see it here! This molar and partial jaw were found west of Fairbanks, Alaska, in the Tanana River Valley in 1975, until the fall of 2024 when it was donated to the Runestone Museum in Alexandria.

The museum also holds the controversial Kensington Runestone, proposed to provide evidence of pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic contact in Minnesota.

https://runestonemuseum.org

#CitizenScience #Pleistocene #Molar

Travels and Tales of Discovery in Minnesota's County Museums: Lost Bones #2 (Not Worth Losing an Ear)

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-2-not-worth-losing-an

#lostbones #pleistocene #holocene #proboscidean #mastodon #vertebra #molar #paleontology #iceage #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn

It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦥🐃 🐘 🐴🐪🐟🍃There are no documented Pleistocene-age horse specimens in Minnesota. The small size of this m3 tooth has me hopeful. It's about 25mm in length across the crown.

Found by a friend on a river gravel bar it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.

#pleistocene #equus #molar #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn