US: Giant tooth in wreck of paleontologist's home

A giant tooth was found by two paleontologists in the wreckage of a Texan home destroyed by Hurricane Ike, reports The Guardian. It is thought that the tooth probably belonged to a Columbian mammoth, which was common in North America around 10,000 years ago.

Dorothy Sisk, a scientist at Lamar University, had returned to her beachfront home in Caplen, on the Bolivar Peninsula, with her colleague Jim Westgate to assess the damage following the hurricane when they found the football-sized fossil tooth amid the debris.

Westgate, who is a paleontologist and research associate at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, said they were looking through the scraps of concrete and splintered pilings in the front garden when he saw the tooth.
Full report on The Guardian site