Ancient Mastodon Tooth Discovered on California Beach
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A woman found a foot-long tooth from an ancient Pacific mastodon on a California beach, but it vanished before a paleontology expert could examine it. A social media plea for help finding the fossil made international headlines, and a jogger eventually found it. The tooth was donated to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, where it will be displayed. Mastodons roamed California from about 5m to 10,000 years ago, and the age of the tooth is not clear. It is only the third locally recorded mastodon fossil find.
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