They called in some experts who dug a little further and found even more. The remains belonged to a mastodon, a relative of the mammoth that lived on Earth until around 13,000 years ago.

A verified mastodon tooth was found by 6-year-old Julian Gagnon of Grosse Pointe Woods, who then donated it to the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. The scientists there verified its ...

But acquiring the mastodon tooth was not easy. After he saw the Facebook post, Thompson raced to the beach on Friday, but the tooth was gone. “We were on pins and needles,” he said.

Ancient mastodon tooth seen, lost, then found again on California beach By Andrew Chamings, Editor-at-Large June 1, 2023 ...

It was a mastodon tooth, right in the same area where we know mastodons lived in Santa Cruz County,” Thompson told KRON 4. Photos of the tooth circulated on social media on May 26.

A verified mastodon tooth was found by 6-year-old Julian Gagnon of Grosse Pointe Woods, who then donated it to the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.

A gigantic tooth that once belonged to an ancient mastodon was discovered, lost and then found again over Memorial Day weekend, after a tourist saw and photographed it on a California beach ...

But for 6-year-old Julian Gagnon, finding a 12,000-year-old mastodon tooth in Michigan was the highlight of his walk back in early September. He was out with his parents at Dinosaur Hill Nature ...

This May 26, 2023, photo provided by the Jennifer Schuh shows a Mastodon Tooth in the sand at an Aptos, Calif., beach. (Jennifer Schuh via AP) ...

The analysis of a mastodon tooth gives the theory that climate changes in Africa caused the divergence of humans, chimps and gorillas more bite (Illustration: N Rohland et al.) An analysis of ...

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilised mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year. The mastodon jaw and some ...