If you read the article, it has some pretty cool stories about early fossil discovery and identification from enslaved and indigenous people, including some of the first identification of a mammoth molar as belonging to an elephant-like creature (the slaves had some experience with elephants, you see.) Notably, this stood at odds to a prevailing theory that it was from giants who drowned in Noah's flood.
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If you read the article, it has some pretty cool stories about early fossil discovery and identification from enslaved and indigenous people, including some of the first identification of a mammoth molar as belonging to an elephant-like creature (the slaves had some experience with elephants, you see.) Notably, this stood at odds to a prevailing theory that it was from giants who drowned in Noah's flood.