13+ hour, 12+ 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…...

19+ hour, 28+ 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…...

1+ day, 48+ 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…...

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…...

2+ 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…...

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…...

2+ day, 8+ 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…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (18+ words) USA Today 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found in Midpen preserve...

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…...

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…...