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

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in Bay Area creek
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Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the 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 of a Pacific mastodon. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist a...

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