One of zed 's tusks is misshapen , evidence of the hard life he led .
崔德的一根象牙已经出现了变形，这是它生活艰难的明证。
Above : researchers have almost finished freeing zed 's skull from the matrix of sand and tar that preserved it .
上图：研究者们已经从沙土和焦油的混合物中清理出了崔德的大部分头骨化石。
Before zed 's tusks came along , the page had only bits and pieces of mammoth tusks . Not one piece was larger than a football .
在崔德的象牙出土之前，佩奇博物馆只保存了一些支离破碎的猛犸象牙，最大的一块甚至比橄榄球还要小。
As cool as it is to find charismatic megafauna like zed , paleontologists at the page museum get more excited about the smaller fossils the turtles and mice , snails and centipedes , fish and ferns .
