UK boy uncovers 1.8-million-year-old elephant tooth on Suffolk coast
An 11-year-old boy in Suffolk, England, Charlie Orchard-Lisle, found a four-inch, 1.8-million-year-old upper left molar from the extinct Anancus avernensis on East Lane beach at Bawdsey. Paleontologists say erosion likely freed the tooth from the Red Crag cliffs, and the enamel is well-preserved after hundreds of thousands of years. The discovery coincided with the boy’s love of elephants, making it a striking, wild coincidence and a notable paleontological find.