{"id":523039,"date":"2026-04-10T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:07:09","slug":"ipswich-girls-mammal-bone-find-could-be-500000-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523039\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich girl&#8217;s mammal bone find &#8216;could be 500,000 years old&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million years old, according to an evolutionary biologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nina Evans, from Ipswich, was looking through the rocks on Felixstowe beach with her dad, David Evans, 41, and brother, Ivan, nine, on Easter Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After searching for shark teeth, the seven-year-old found a piece of bone which an AI app \u2013 after assessing photos of the find \u2013 said may have belonged to a mammoth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Professor Ben Garrod, from the University of East Anglia, said while the piece could potentially be a mammoth&#8217;s bone, it is possible it may also have come from a multitude of other large mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-523039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}