Man finds 6-foot mammoth tusk on Alaska beach

Raymond Hunt, 27, saw only a few inches of what looked like a black pipe sticking out of the sand in Shaktoolik when he realized it was a tusk, likely from a woolly mammoth, KTUU reported.

"It's the first time I found one," Hunt told KTUU. "I've got the tusk fever!"

Hunt plans to sell the tusk, which is estimated to be worth about $5,000, to pay for winter fuel, food and snow-machine parts, KTUU reported.