1-million-year-old mastodon tooth found in the United States

A resident of the state of California, USA, found an unusual object during a walk on the beach. This find is nothing more than a mastodon tooth, extinct for over ten thousand years.

The approximately 12-inch-long object was found by Jennifer Schuh in the sand of Rio Del Mar beach – located in Monterey Bay in central California. Schul said he found the object near a river connected to the beach. According to her, the object “looked strange, almost burnt”.

So Thompson contacted Schuh and asked for help finding the item. The two returned to the beach, but the object was gone. So the paleontologist decided to seek help on social media. A few days later, a man found the object and contacted the museum.

So far, the exact age of the discovery is not known. The museum’s blog states that this species has lived in California for more than four million years, but has been extinct for ten thousand years.

“We can safely say that this specimen is less than a million years old, which is relatively ‘new’ in terms of fossils,” said Liz Broughton of the Santa Cruz museum.

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