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CULTUREPhiladelphia Inquirer·2d ago

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

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A habitat restoration worker discovered a well-preserved Pacific mastodon tooth while working in a wooded creek in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brigid Lynch identified the fossil after noticing it differed from the surrounding rocks in the mountainous terrain. The discovery offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric fauna that once inhabited the region.

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 didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye

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