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A Giant Monster Rock Turns Out to Be Giant Ancient Teeth!

Sunday 20 September 2026 β€’Newsround (BBC)
A Giant Monster Rock Turns Out to Be Giant Ancient Teeth!

Photo: Matt Artz / Unsplash

An outdoor explorer just discovered that a strange, heavy rock is actually a set of teeth from a massive mastodon (a giant, furry cousin of the elephant from the Ice Age)! These super-sized chompers are thousands of years old and survived for centuries disguised as a simple stone. Can you imagine having teeth so big they look like a boulder?
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