Overview
- The sport divers Jürgen Wiegleb and Jürgen Woelke found the nearly 80-centimeter woolly mammoth tusk in Salzgittersee in mid-July.
- They promptly handed the fully preserved specimen to the Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter.
- The city called the discovery a small sensation given the tusk’s exceptional condition.
- The museum is storing the tusk in a water bath to prevent drying while conservation proceeds over an estimated one to two years.
- Initial assessments suggest the tusk comes from a juvenile animal and dates somewhere between 10,000 and 110,000 years.