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Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (266+ 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... Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco Brigid Lynch was…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
19+ hour, 24+ min ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Well-Preserved Tooth From Pacific Mastodon Found in a Creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (375+ 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…...
Anemone, Sponge, Megalodon Tooth
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (48+ words) oceanexplorer.noaa.gov LIVE VIDEO: The 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition is underway. Watch live dives to explore deep-sea habitats of American Samoa. NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration Download largest version (jpg, 590.9 KB) Stay connected to…...
Extinction is forever | Paleontology
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...
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,…...
Nearly Destroyed DNA Reveals Two Extinct Giant Tortoise Lineages
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....
An 'immaculate' molar: Fossilized mastodon tooth found in San Mateo County creek bed
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (80+ words) An ‘immaculate’ molar: Fossilized mastodon tooth found in San Mateo County creek bed Local News Matters A fossil of an intact molar belonging to a Pacific mastodon, a tusked mammal that went extinct almost 12,000 years ago, was recently discovered in…...