SEA'S MYSTERY.
GREAT TUSKS FISHED UP. LONDON, January 9. The sea has mysteries as curious as the Loch Ness "monster," declares Mr. Neil Mackay, managing director of a fishing company, following his experience on a trawler. Fishing in deep water off the Shetlands, he hauled up a net containing two large tusks 54 inches long, which a professor of natural history declares to be relics of the mammoth or shaggy elephant which existed in Europe in the ice age.
The species has been extinct for 50,000 years. The tusks may have floated to the North Sea in an Arctic iceberg or may be the remains of mammoths which lived on a great plain where the North Sea now is.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 7
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