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A tooth from the Ice Age: Mastodon fossil found in San Francisco Bay Area

A 23cm long fossilised tooth discovered in a California creek is offering scientists a glimpse into the Bay Area's prehistoric past.

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00:27Picking up out of the water
00:28really obvious I keep joking like it wasn't hard to find it was just
00:33sitting there in the middle of the creek halfway in half out of the water and it
00:40just obviously really stuck out to me because it didn't look like any of the
00:43other rocks that I was looking at it
00:56we've known that mammoth and mastodon were here in the Bay Area during the ice
01:02age or the Pleistocene Epoch I was pretty surprised at the way that this
01:07particular fossil tooth was found and quite excited by it
01:19you
01:20you
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