Prehistoric animal tusk found in Athens County – Athens County Independent

Prehistoric animal tusk found in Athens County – Athens County Independent

AMESVILLE, Ohio — Over the past 45 years, Mark Cohen has repeatedly walked along the same creek on his property, a tributary of Federal Creek, finding arrowheads and at least 10 pieces of petrified wood. “I have paid attention to just about everything I can, and so it’s just constantly training my senses to be tuned into things that are interesting and different,” Cohen said. But in early March, he found something truly unusual: the tusk of a pr…