Woman walking on California beach finds ancient mastodon tooth

Woman walking on California beach finds ancient mastodon tooth

Something unusual was sticking out of the sand during the woman's beach walk.

Woman walking on California beach finds ancient mastodon tooth

A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.

A woman strolling on a California beach found a massive mastodon tooth — and then lost it

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) A woman found an ancient mastodon tooth on a California beach. She left the fossil behind, but took a picture of it and shared it on Facebook. A user identified it as a mastodon molar — leading to a frantic search for the missing tooth. APTOS, Calif. (AP) — A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a…

Woman walking on California beach finds ancient mastodon tooth

Jennifer Schuh found the foot-long tooth sticking out of the sand on Friday at the mouth of Aptos Creek on Rio Del Mar State Beach.

Woman walking along California beach finds ancient, foot-long mastodon tooth

A woman strolling on a California beach found a giant ancient tooth belonging to a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like species that once roamed the area up to 5 million years ago.

California woman finds foot-long ancient mastodon tooth on beach

Fossil vanished shortly afterwards and was found again after a social media callout and donated to museum in Santa Cruz