The 700,000-year fossil suspected to be 'precious' mammoth

An Englishman found a 6.4cm-long penis fossil likely to belong to a mammoth that lived 700,000 years ago.

The penis fossil specimen was shared by Robert Mee on Facebook.(Photo: SWNS).

Fossil hunter Robert Mee found fossils on the Hunstanton coast, Norfolk, England, where researchers once unearthed West Runton mammoth bones 27 years ago, Mirror reported Monday. Mee shared discoveries on personal Facebook and called for help identifying the specimen.

Most comments suggest that the object resembles the elephant's penis. However, some experts believe that Mee's findings are more like mammoth fossil fossils than body parts.

For nearly three decades, the Norfolk Coast recorded many important archaeological findings including the oldest human footprints and the world's most complete mammoth skeleton. West Runton is a 4m tall male mammoth and weighs 10 tons, twice the weight of today's African elephants.

In 2012, 11-year-old Russian boy named Yevgeny Salinder found intact preserved mammoth corpses on a riverbank with bones, ears, ivory, some facial features and part of the penis.