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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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00:03I have, this is my first time seeing you do, but I'm a little younger than 10,000 years old,
00:09and then there's another that was found in this general area that was about.
00:27Sticking up out of the water, really 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 just obviously really
00:41stuck out to me,
00:42because it didn't look like any of the other rocks that I was looking at.
00:46This is the root, and then this part.
00:56We've known that mammoth and mastodon were here in the Bay Area during the Ice Age or the Pleistocene Epoch.
01:04I was pretty surprised at the way that this particular fossil tooth was found and quite excited by it.
01:12That is actually, God, that's a strong animal.
01:14You end up in your mouth?
01:16Well, and then the fossilization process, too, is the replacement of organic matter with inorganic matter, which tends, for most
01:23of these, tends to, you know where it came from, and we can go.
01:26This one's like, what, 10 dollars then?
01:28At least.
01:29Help me.
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