Alaska man headed to prison for theft, destruction of woolly mammoth tusk
The tusk was unearthed along the Colville River on Alaska's North Slope, an important area for Arctic fossils.
April 16, 2019
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An Anchorage man was will go to prison for early three years in prison for stealing and chopping up a woolly mammoth tusk excavated decades ago in Arctic Alaska and on display at a Bureau of Land visitor site.
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