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Dec 4, 2021 · MACHIAS — The Randolph Mammoth, one of the most complete examples of its species ever discovered in New York state, returns to the Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library as the...
Feb 7, 2024 · Two new shark species that lived 325 million years ago have been discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park and northern Alabama. The sharks would have lived in an ancient seaway that...
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Paleontologist Ed Mercurio has called Ventura County amarvel of paleontological diversity. He toldthe Los Angeles Times, “you can walk through time…from underwater formations totropical rain forests, in just a single canyon.” Fossils of starfish and sand dollars dating back 55 million years have been found north of Ojai. In a Simi Valley canyon, gi...
The Research Library houses huge bound volumes of the Santa Paula Chronicle. Browse the brittle, yellowed pages of the newspaper from 1932 and you’ll find a front-page article on November 26thheadlined “County Road Builders Find Ancient Bones.” Road builders were working on Foothill Road, three mileseast of Ventura. Widening the roadwayalong the hi...
In 1994, paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a pygmy mammoth on Santa Rosa Island. It was 95% complete and was considered the most complete skeleton of a pygmy mammoth ever found. So, what is a pygmy mammoth? In contrast to the Columbian mammoth which stood as high as 14 feet and weighed 20,000 pounds, the pygmy mammoth stood five ...
Another mammoth became a one-day media star at least 750,000 years after it drowned in an ancient stream and its body was covered by flood debris. In late March 2005, TV helicopters circled over a 15-by-20-foot hole after bones were discovered by crews grading for a 265-home development in the Moorpark foothills. The same mammoth expert who verifie...
This fourth Ventura mammoth never roamed in the county butis resting here as a favorite of school children in a small Ojai museum run bythe Ventura Gem & Mineral Society. There the children can handle and even pose for pictures on a giant,resin-coated mammoth tusk named Murphy. (Noone remembers why the mammoth was named Murphy.) The Society’s Histo...
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Sep 18, 2016 · Hour by hour, day by day, the mammoth began to take shape. Its right tusk curved back nearly 4 feet into a full, cream-colored skull. The fragile forehead area easily could have been crushed,...
Mar 3, 2022 · The Randolph Mammoth is one of the most complete mammoth specimens ever found in New York State; most other mammoth material is fragmentary, often consisting of just a tooth. It is believed to be a Columbian Mammoth, considerably rarer in our region than the Wooly Mammoth.
Feb 4, 2020 · Hodnett had recently been sent photos, taken by Mammoth Cave scientists Rick Olson and Rick Toomey, that appeared to show fossilized shark cartilage—a rare discovery indeed, since cartilage...
May 26, 2023 · At least 40 different species of sharks and their relatives have been identified, including 6 new species. Rare preservation of three-dimensional skeletal cartilage documented in Mammoth Cave allows us to understand the anatomy and relationships of these ancient sharks.
