Look what I found in an Elk skull today.

And by the way, Elk fight each other during the rut a lot more than they get attacked by large toothed predators, especially in Nebraska. but also everywhere they live.

 

Very cool.

 

That is bizarre! We took in an elk a couple of years ago with a healed hole in the skull, about an inch in diameter that was likely caused by fighting. The strange thing was that the skull piece was just punched in to the brain, AND HEALED that way.
That sure looks like a tooth to me.

 

Talk about once in a life time!

 

He should make it into a necklace so he can see it.

 

That's amazing

 

if its a tooth, there should be a root canal in the middle leading down near the tip.....

 

Grumpa, That was my first thought. We run into pieces of horn stuck in deer and elk every year while we are fleshing or cleaning up skulls. It looks to be a tooth and as RDA says it should be easy to tell by a root canal. Lions suffocate their prey by latching onto their face. Regardless it's cool.

 

Inquiring minds want to know. Is there a root canal? Or is it a solid antler tip? Shape and Size could be anything.

 

Jimmy Hoffa ???

 

And the mystery continues.

 

Why wpuld the customer be upset with it? Heck it it were mine, I would be calling CNN for and interview...

 

Very cool find. So they already agree it's a tooth and are just deciding bear or lion?

 

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Snaggle tooth use to say,,, Exit,,, stage left,,,, and running all the way,,,, Heavens to mergatroids!!

 

I saw this picture and thought of this tread straight away ;D

 

Maybe the customer isn't on the up-and-up with the game commission. Sure it was a legal kill??? And maybe he's afraid the attention will attrack a thief to his home.

Oh, could it be the tip to a claw? Looks like a tooth to me, though, from the pics.

That pic of the guy posing with the elk, while a cougar watches, is neat! Don't know if it is a photoshopped one or not, but still cool. And kinda creepy, if it is real.

 

The customer may be afraid the tooth will get taken from him in all this investigating, etc.