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Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek
3+ hour, 33+ min 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…...
Deadly South Dakota Sinkhole And Its 61 Intact Mammoth Skeletons Is Older Than Thought
6+ hour, 58+ min ago (1338+ words) The world-famous Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, is older than scientists believed. A new scientific study revealed that the ancient sinkhole, containing dozens of intact mammoth skeletons, is between 160,000 and 232,000 years old. The world-famous Mammoth Site of Hot…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
19+ hour, 1+ min ago (238+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didnât look like the rocks sheâd been studying caught her eye. It…...
She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
1+ day, 13+ hour 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…...
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
1+ day, 20+ hour 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 – WTOP News
2+ 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…...
Only known woolly dog pelt returns to B.C. after being in U.S. museum for 160 years
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (217+ words) The only known woolly dog pelt is back where it originated on Coast Salish territory, after being in a U.S. museum for 160 years. Before the animals became extinct, woolly dogs were bred by local First Nations for their soft, long hair…...
The strange ancient creature hiding in a Norwegian sheep field
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (628+ words) A remarkable 560-million-year-old fossil found in a Norwegian sheep field is giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse into early animal life—and revealing surprising clues about Earth’s ancient ecosystems. Scientists have discovered one of the oldest known three-dimensionally preserved fossils in…...
10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found in Midpen preserve
3+ 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
3+ 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…...