11-year-old UK boy finds 1.8M-year-old elephant tooth on beach in wild coincidence
“It must have been quite distinctive because it caught both our eyes — we could tell it was something different, it had a different feel to it.''
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World News 11-year-old UK boy finds 1.8M-year-old elephant tooth on beach in wild coincidence By Brandon Cruz Published June 28, 2026, 3:09 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google An 11-year-old English boy recently stumbled onto a 1.8 million-year-old fist-sized tooth from a now-extinct elephant while walking on the beach with his family. The eagle-eyed kid, Charlie Orchard-Lisle, spotted the rock-like object along the shoreline of East Lane beach in Bawdsey, a quaint coastal village in Suffolk, England, in May — just as he was talking about his love of elephants, according to local UK outlet South West News Service.
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