This fossil catch has yielded over 200 tons of fossil bones and over 15,000 mammoth teeth. Partially fossilized mammoth teeth are found in abundance here and are also available from many other sources as well. A portion of a mammoth tooth obtained from North Sea seabed and sold on-line. Trawlers are now careful to keep their catch of fossils and have been able to sell them to fossil traders providing a new revenue stream for their excursions.īy recording the locations of their finds and allowing scientists to make observations before many are sold to collectors, much has been learned about the fauna that once roamed the land that now lies 30 to 150 feet below the North Sea waters. For over 100 years fishermen in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark have found such items in their nets but it wasn’t until the 1980s that their value, monetarily and scientifically, was finally appreciated. Imagine trawling for fish and when you pull up your nets you find a massive bone or a huge tooth along with your catch. A large leg bone of a mammoth comes up with a load a fish and other debris from the floor of the North Sea.
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