While excavating at an undisclosed new home construction site Carlsbad workers discovered what is being called the remains of a 100,000 year old Mastodon.
Tom Demere is the paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum. We’re the first people to ever see this specimen. And it hasn’t seen the light of day for at least 100,000 years. It kind of confirms our ideas about the ancient environments here in the coastal plain of Southern California. He says two complete tusks, an upper jaw fragment with three teeth, and vertebrae from one mastodon were found.
That is serious local status.
[Link: KPBS]
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