A massive eight-foot tusk that once belonged to a woolly mammoth has been unearthed in down-town Seattle.
The impressive specimen is thought to date back at least 16,000 years to when an ice age swept through the region, reports AP.
Although doubtful, there is a slim chance that further excavations will uncover more of the animal.
What happens to the tusk is entirely up to the landowner.
Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies and Montana State University said: "A lot of times, people think these things are worth a lot of money.
"Their true value is educational, not what someone can sell a tusk for on eBay."
Siberia's Mammoth Hunters
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Open Image ModalAfter being frozen for thousands of years in a Siberian riverbed, this pristine mammoth tusk is a financial boon to the hunter who found it. (Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)
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Open Image ModalA tusk hunter scours the coast of Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Lured by rising prices for mammoth ivory, hundreds of men cross the frozen Arctic seas each spring to search for it along eroding shorelines. (Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)
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Open Image ModalThe valuable tusks of the mammoth, sketched by tusk hunter Lev Nikolaevich, serve as northern Yakutiya’s economic lifeline. (Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)
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Open Image ModalVladimir Potapov raises the skull of a prehistoric bison from a pile of assorted bones, including mammoth tusks, outside a makeshift bathhouse near Lake Bustakh. (Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)
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Open Image ModalThe journey from permafrost to market—nearly 90 percent of Siberia’s tusks end up in China—begins by small boat. (Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:Evgenia Arbugaeva/National Geographic)
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Open Image ModalAll images are from the April issue of National Geographic magazine. (National Geographic)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/mammoth-tusks/arbugaeva-photography (credit:National Geographic)