When Jessie Gaudet and her dog were walking on a beach near Tignish, PEI, after the storm when they came across a walrus tusk, buried in the sand. “I found what appeared to be a bone sticking out of the sand near the water’s edge,” he told CTV’s “Your Morning” on Friday. “When I took it out, I actually thought it was a claw at first (but) … once I got the sand off, I had an idea it was a hippopotamus because of the tusks.” When he called the New Brunswick Museum, staff confirmed they had found an ancient walrus tusk that was potentially thousands of years old. She was told to keep it in salt water until it was picked up from her this week. “The walrus is one of the most easily recognizable species of the Canadian Arctic,” says the Nature Conservancy Canada website. They were once found in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, but were eventually overhunted to extinction in the region in the late 18th century. According to Gaudet, the New Brunswick museum told her that based on the images she sent, the walrus skull could be anywhere from 3,000 to 12,000 years old.
