Fossil hunter 'finds 700,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth PENIS' on beach near where 10-tonne prehistoric beast roamed
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A man has found a six-centimetre fossil on a beach that some believe could be the penis of a mammoth last seen 700,000 years ago.
Robert Mee stumbled across the phallic-looking find on the same stretch of coastline where the skeleton of the West Runton mammoth - was discovered 27 years ago.
He made the surprising discovery in Hunstanton, Norfolk - just 30 miles from where Ice age mammoth, often referred to as an elephant , last walked.
Robert later shared his find on Facebook appealing for help in identifying it, but received an interesting response.
(Photo: SWNS)
(Photo: Robert Mee / SWNS)
Niall Thorogood, who found a baby mammoth tooth on West Runton Beach in April, commented: "Odd shape."
Richard Rockett said: "It looks like a fossilised phallus."
Alison Cramp added: "Elephant penis?"
(Photo: Robert Mee / SWNS)
It is believed the male West Runton mammoth stood four metres tall at the shoulder and weighed 10 tonnes - twice the weight of the modern African elephant.
(Photo: Getty)
Some experts have dismissed the find as a trace fossil, such as faeces left behind by animals, rather than the preserved remains of the body of the actual animal itself.
However, over the past 27 years north Norfolk's eroding coastline has yielded up scores of prehistoric treasures.
It includes the oldest human footprints found outside Africa, and the most complete skeleton of a mammoth anywhere in the world.