Crumlin's wooly mammoth
I spent the day at , near Crumlin. In 1986, geologists drilling for a new seam of lignite on the shores of the lough made a remarkable find. An enormous tooth was unearthed in a layer of mud above the seam of lignite. They had uncovered a tooth belonging to a that roamed in the Lough Neagh area thousands of years ago. I held the actual tooth in my hands today -- courtesy of the Ulster Museum -- as we filmed a sequence on location at the site of the discovery. Did you know that Northern Ireland was home to wooly mammoths?
Now back in Belfast, it's time for a quick change, then I'm off to the Waterfront Hall to chair annual certificate distribution ceremony.
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So they found a tooth. You mean not a whole fossil? How can they claim it existed, then, William? It could have been the buck tooth of an exceptionally large Irish rabbit. Let's put it this way: there's as much faith required either way.
A tooth is even better evidence than a fossil, right?
There - if only I had brushed up on my elephant jokes...
Perhaps a limerick?
There once was a mammoth from Crumlin,
Who tumbling over a drumlin,
Shouted 'In truth,
I have loosened my tooth,
And now will sport such a dumb grin'.
That's terrible... Sorry.
Interesting to know that mammoths weren't mammoth - another illusion shattered.
"Did you know that Northern Ireland was home to wooly mammoths?"
From the look of some of our politicians I'd say it is still home to some!
In 1997, an entire mummified Wooly Mammoth was found in the Siberian ice.
They are now trying to clone it!
According to Juraccic Park we could get the DNA from the tooth and clone our own Ulster Wooly Mammoth now that would be worth talking about.
Ulster Wooly Mammoth meets First and Deputy First Ministers at Stormont!
jboy- I love the conversations with God on your blog. You could turn it into a feature, actually, or even turn it into the format of the blog. Fantastic!
Thanks John
I have a few more will post them up
in next few days
On the cusp of an incisive story...?
jboy - Hopefully not in this thread!
Freethinker- On his own blog, nitwit!
Just because he has conversations with God doesn’t necessarily make him a nitwit!!
Don't worry Freethinker ..I meant on my own blog!
According to Michael Hofreiter
( The Max Planck Institute ) Mammoths lived in Europe 1.6 million years ago and then again 10,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch.( I think that means new or recent ice age )Bit of an age gap there I suppose they went to colder climates for their holidays in-between times.
This thread is growing long in the tooth. You don't like my joke? Tusk, tusk.