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Tusk, tusk: S. Ore.

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MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- Divers have recovered the tusk of a mammoth in a bank of the Umpqua River.

Eric Warner of Myrtle Creek says he discovered the remains in 1986 while playing in the water as a teenager.

He found them again Tuesday and called the Douglas County Museum.

The museum already had one such large, pointy tooth from the extinct elephant.

Museum Director Gardner Chappell got permits and then got three divers to dig out Warner's tusk on Thursday.

He says the tip of the tusk broke before divers arrived, and it cracked in two places during excavation.

But he says the breaks were clean, and the museum should be able to reconstruct the remains that are more than 10,000 years old.