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 object gives “local scientists their first evidence that a herd of mastodon likely roamed through this area during the Ice Ages,” according to a statement given to KRON 4 by Wayne Thompson, a paleontology collections advisor for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
After the discovery, Jennifer Schuh posted pictures of the tooth on social media on May 26 which attracted the attention of Thompson, a paleontology collections advisor for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Thompson told NTD Television, sister media of The Epoch Times, he contacted Schuh and suggested they “take a look at this specimen.”…