Category: Mastodon

Woman Found Ice-Age Mastodon Tooth on California Beach

Over the Memorial Day weekend, a woman was taking a stroll at Rio Del Mar State Beach in Northern California when she found a mysterious object in the sand that turned out to be a tooth from an ancient mastodon.  The foot-long tooth belonged to an adult member of the extinct Ice Age species. This…


Woman Walking on California Beach Finds Ancient Mastodon Tooth

APTOS, Calif.—A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media blitz and a kind-hearted jogger to find it again. Jennifer Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out…