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She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
13+ hour, 13+ min ago (475+ words) A routine frog habitat survey in a California creek revealed a massive fossil hiding half beneath the water. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ day, 49+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (269+ words) (KTLA) – What looked like a strange rock in a California creek turned out to be something much older and rarer. A scientist working in San Mateo County discovered an intact mastodon tooth during a field survey at a Midpeninsula Regional…...
10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found in Midpen preserve
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (18+ words) USA Today 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found in Midpen preserve...
Rare Ice Age mastodon tooth discovered in Bay Area creek
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (695+ words) Amid an oppressive stretch of extreme heat and Florida-esque humidity that has been punishing much of California, consider, for a moment, the Ice Age. For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and…...
10,000-year-old mastodon tooth fossil discovered in California creek bed
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (364+ words) The fossil was found in exceptionally well-preserved condition, scientists said. A fossilized Pacific mastodon tooth that scientists say is at least 10,000 years old and in “immaculate condition” was discovered recently in in a creek bed in California, according to local…...
Scientist Finds Mysterious Tooth In SMC Creek With A Prehistoric Surprise
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (430+ words) SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — A scientist conducting field surveys in San Mateo County recently spotted what appeared to be an oddly shaped rock in a creek bed but paleontologists later confirmed it was an intact mastodon tooth, the Midpeninsula Regional…...
Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...
Ancient American cheetahs were not exactly cheetah-like
1+ week, 1+ day ago (146+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 11:00 AM EDT “It’s really surprising and exciting to identify another predator present in Beringia,” Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), said in a statement. Berinigia is the ancient stretch of land…...