'Longest tusks in the world'

In today’s times if one thinks of long teeth, elephant’s tusks come to mind. , In the ancient times, a mastodon, member of the family Mammutidae, related, though, different to the mammoth also had long teeth. The two well-preserved tusks seen above are among the recently unearthed parts of a mastodon found in northern Greece.

Measuring 16.4 feet (5 meters) and 15 feet (4.6 meters), the toothy remains “are the longest tusks ever to be discovered in the world.”

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