Summary
A seven-year-old girl named Nina Evans found a bone on Felixstowe beach in the UK, which experts estimate could be up to 500,000 years old. The bone might belong to a mammoth or other large animal from the Pleistocene era, a period known for ice ages.
Key Facts
- Nina Evans discovered the bone on Felixstowe beach while searching for shark teeth.
- An AI app suggested the bone may have belonged to a mammoth.
- Professor Ben Garrod, an expert, said it could also be from other large mammals like an Irish elk or a wild horse.
- The potential age of the bone is between 100,000 and 500,000 years old.
- The Pleistocene era, when the bone may have originated, is also known as the Great Ice Age.
- Suffolk is known for fossils from this era, including mammoth remains.
- Nina's father, David Evans, frequently takes his children to the beach to search for interesting finds.
- Ipswich Museums indicated the bone could be from a rib, but a horn is also a possibility.
