2008-03-06 - Allen, United States. KARIN SHAW ANDERSON
That warm October day last year, Allison – then 8 years old – pulled on her bright yellow galoshes and headed off to Waters Creek at the Day Spring Nature Preserve. She was on a mission to find fossils. Mom, Dad and a friend were in tow. "It was two days after a big storm," Allison remembered. The creek was high, and water pooled in gullies around the steep banks. Resting just below the surface was a rock-shaped object with rippled edges. Allison saw it first.
2008-03-06 - Carlsbad, United States.
A mastodon fossil unearthed last year in northern Carlsbad has been allowed to visit home, temporarily. The ancient mammal's tusk and jaw bones are on display at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center, at Faraday Avenue and Cannon Road, through July. The fossils are owned by the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose team of paleontologists discovered mastodon bones June 14 when earth movers were grading land for a housing development at El Camino Real and Cannon Road in Carlsbad. “Literal...
2008-03-06 - Allen, United States. Jonathan Betz
A nine-year-old North Texas girl recently made an historic find while outside near her home. Alison Dodd was playing in a creek near her Allen home when she said she stumbled across what she thought was a rock. The item that caught her eye turned out to be something an archeologist would love to happen upon - a fossil. Dating back at least 10,000 years when prehistoric beasts roamed the area, the so-called rock turned out to be a wooly mammoth's tooth. "We've always kind of joked that she has a ...
2008-03-02 - Quad City, United States. Kay Luna
Scientists also have found fossils from long after the dinosaur era, the early part of what is sometimes referred to as the Age of Mammals — including the skull and tusks of a mastodon, which looked sort of like an elephant, that were found in 1968 in Prophetstown, Ill. That relic, along with fossilized mastodon and wooly mammoth teeth from the same era that were found in Rock Island County, is on display in the Fryxell Geology Museum at Augustana. It wasn’t until long after the age of dinos...
2008-02-22 - Salt Lake City, United States. Derek P. Jensen, The Salt Lake Tribune
After 20 years of traversing the world in the Navy, Earl Gowin has seen a little bit of everything. But it took retirement on a family ranch near Fillmore for Gowin's grandest discovery. In November 2004, a bulldozer operator hit something hard in Gowin's sand and gravel pit, which he had leased to a contractor. "My first thought was, 'That looks like a mammoth tusk,' " Gowin recalled saying about the six-foot fossil. "I didn't know mammoths were in this part of the world, but evidently they wer...
2008-02-17 - Gastonia, United States. Teri Walley
Larry Agenbroad, modern-day woolly mammoth hunter, was part of an international team of scientists who, in 1999, chipped the Jarkov mammoth out of the permafrost, extracting from the ice an elephant-sized popsicle. The Fossil Fair and Agenbroad's talk fit in with the Schiele's featured exhibit, "TUSKS! Ice Age Mammoths and Mastodons," which presents the skulls of American lions, saber-tooth cats, cave bears and 10-million-year-old shoveltuskers. Agenbroad will tell stories about his famous Russi...
2008-02-12 - Woodland, United States. ROBIN HINDERY
In September 2004, the discovery of a mammoth fossil bone at a Capay mining facility captured the attention of local residents - and Daily Democrat staff. But after an initial flurry of headlines and conversation, the story of the fossil was buried by other news. No more. In January, the Daily Democrat began digging and unearthed the tale of what happened to the bone, what researchers learned about it, and where it is now.
2008-01-20 - Dallas, United States. JOANNA CATTANACH
Lone Star, the world's largest four-tusk mastodon skull discovered in a gravel pit in La Grange, sold for $191,200 at auction Sunday. Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries featured the impressive pre-historic piece at its Natural History Auction along with several hundred other items including a golden nugget from Mexico dubbed the Boot of Cortez. The nearly-foot-long gold deposit sold for $1.6 million. But Lone Star was by far the star of the auction. Including skull and tusks, the mammoth pi...
2008-01-20 - Crosbyton, United States.
The mastodon skull is called the Lonestar Mastodon and it was found in LaGrange, Texas, near San Antonio. As it turns out, this mastodon wasn't alone in the Lone star state when he died. "Why are so many buried in Texas, I don't know. I've been 40 miles that way and 40 miles all around this area and I can tell you that there are a dozen mammoths buried in a half square mile," said Taylor. There's one other unique characteristic about the Lonestar Mastodon. "This particular one has tusks coming o...
2008-01-17 - Dallas, United States.
The skull of a four-tusked mastodon believed to be 1 of the nation's largest is going up for auction Sunday. The 40-inch-long skull was found in 2004 in a La Grange gravel pit. Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas expects the skull to fetch as much as $160,000 during its natural history auction. The skull had been housed at the Mount Blanco Fossil Museum near Lubbock. Museum founder and curator Joe Taylor says he needs the money to pay back investors who financed the excavation of the skull afte...
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