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先說我為何覺得有趣，我在奇摩看到這則新聞，就想像著那隻小小狗望著大大的骨頭，並想著「這麼大一隻…要怎麼吃??? 」想著想著就很想笑，就去找原文版本，就看到狗狗的本尊了，果然一付呆呆想吃的樣子，哈哈 ^_^

 

英國英格蘭薩福克郡鄧威治鎮一對老夫婦飼養的迷你臘腸狗「黛西」最近隨主人在海濱晨間散步時，意外撿到一根重3.6公斤、長33公分的化石骨頭。結果主人將骨頭送交專家化驗後，發現這是遠在200萬年前存活地球上的猛瑪象（長毛象）的大腿骨。

英國《每日電訊報》4日報導，專家推測這根腿骨原本可能一直埋在海邊砂石裡，幾十個世紀之後才被海浪沖到岸邊。而現年69歲的狗主人史密斯先生已跟英國博物館取得聯繫，討論如何處置愛犬撿到的這根「骨」董。

史密斯說：「我們在海邊散步時，黛西突然發現這根插在沙子裡的骨頭。牠一直站在那兒盯著骨頭看。所以我也靠過去瞧個究竟，結果發現是一根30多公分長的骨頭插在沙子裡。我就把它拔出來。」

史密斯說：「這東西看來顯然是根骨頭，而我第一個念頭是可能是長毛象身上的骨頭。黛西撿到這根骨頭後看來也很高興，但骨頭太重牠根本咬不起來。」史密斯表示，黛西平常就喜歡啃骨頭，而老夫婦烤肉時也會把吃剩的羊腿骨丟給牠吃，牠才會特別注意骨頭。

(English version)

A small dog has discovered the fossilised leg bone of a giant woolly mammoth. Daisy, a miniature wire-haired dachshund, found the ancient bone, weighing about 8lb, during its early morning walk on the beach at Dunwich, Suffolk.
The dog's owner, Dennis Smith, 69, dug it out of the sand and later showed it to a geologist who identified it as part of a leg from a mammoth that probably roamed the area up to two million years ago.

The 13in bone is believed to have been uncovered by heavy seas that battered the Suffolk coast and washed away sand that may have covered it for centuries.

Daisy made the discovery while Mr Smith and his wife, Barbara, were on a break at their caravan on the Cliff House Holiday Park in Dunwich.

Mr Smith said: "We were just walking along the beach when Daisy spotted this object sticking out of the sand half way between the high tide and low water mark.

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"She just stood there looking at it. So I went over to see what it was. There was about six inches of it sticking in the sand so I pulled it out.

"It was obvious that it was some sort of bone and my first thought was that it might be from something like a mammoth. Daisy looked quite pleased with herself, even though it was far too heavy for her to pick up.

"She loves gnawing on bones and always has the leftover lamb leg bone from our Sunday roast."

Mr Smith has contacted the British Museum about the find.

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Daisy the dog who dug up a Mammoth bone on the beach at Dunwich, Suffolk