https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/woman-finds-mastodon-tooth-on-california-beach-180982302/
The tooth is only the third mastodon specimen recorded locally in the Santa Cruz area, per the AP. The museum also has a juvenile mastodon skull discovered in 1980 by 16-year-old Jim Stanton on

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mastodon-tooth-found-california-beach-rio-del-mar-santa-cruz/
Dating back to the Ice Age, mastodons refer to a group of giant elephant-like species, including the mammoth, that became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Remains of the ancient creature have been

https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/mastodon-tooth-from-ice-age-found-on-california-beach/
00:00. 00:42. A massive mastodon tooth dating from the Ice Age has been turned into a local museum by a jogger after it was initially discovered on a California beach before disappearing once

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180840774/social-media-leads-to-discovery-of-5-000-year-old-mastodon-tooth
Social media leads to discovery of 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth A mastodon tooth washed up on a California beach and then went missing. A local museum tried to track it down. A local museum tried

https://apnews.com/article/california-beach-ancient-mastodon-tooth-cfcd32d4b9008523d111714a84dea604
A Northern California woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on the beach has discovered a mastodon tooth that's at least 5,000 years old. Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out of the sand on Friday at the mouth of Aptos Creek on Rio Del Mar State Beach, located off Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County. (Jennifer Schuh via AP)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-03/woman-walking-on-california-beach-finds-ancient-mastodon-tooth/102437036
A woman taking a stroll on a California beach finds an ancient mastodon tooth sticking out of the sand. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media blitz and a kind-hearted jogger to find it

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mastodon-tooth-found-california-beach-18130263.php
Rio Del Mar State Beach in Santa Cruz County, where a mastodon tooth was discovered in May 2023. One day, at least 10,000 years ago, a mastodon strolling near a California beach lost a tooth (or

https://www.wusf.org/2023-06-07/social-media-leads-to-discovery-of-5-000-year-old-mastodon-tooth
SHAPIRO: Not quite because, as Thompson could tell from the photos, it was actually a tooth - a huge mastodon molar almost 5 inches wide, with long roots extending below the chomping part. KELLY: It is old. The last of these ice age mammoth relatives died out 10,000 years ago. Thompson rushed to the beach. But when he got there, the tooth was gone.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/woman-finds-foot-long-mastodon-tooth-from-ice-age-on-a-california-beach/
Jun 15, 2023. Mastodon tooth found on the beach by Jennifer Schuh. When a California woman found what looked like used firewood on a beach, she snapped some photographs of the nevertheless strange

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a44068517/runner-finds-ice-age-mastodon-tooth/
On Tuesday, Jim Smith of Santa Cruz discovered a mastodon tooth while running on a California beach. Mastodons (large, prehistoric elephants) roamed North and Central America in the Ice Age

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44109/20230602/ice-age-era-mastodon-tooth-found-northern-california-beach-went.htm
Finding the Missing Tooth. Jennifer Schuh found the mastodon tooth from the Ice Age era on a North California beach, but mistakenly left it in the sand, thinking it was driftwood.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-01/santa-cruz-beachgoers-find-5-000-year-old-mastodon-tooth-over-the-memorial-day-weekend
Aug. 19, 2022. This isn't the first time the museum has encountered remains of a mastodon. In 1980, 16-year-old Jim Stanton found a mastodon skull in the same creek at Rio Del Mar State Beach

https://www.wlky.com/article/ice-age-era-mastodon-tooth-found-california-beach/44057892
The tooth is the second confirmed mastodon fossil that's been found in Santa Cruz County; the first is a 120-pound, juvenile mastodon skull also found at Aptos Creek in 1980. It's now on display

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSLf7jwrxU
Just after the storm passed through shifting the bottom of the ocean, new fossils were exposed. This time, we came away with many megalodon teeth as well as

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/santa-cruz-county-beach-ancient-mastodon-tooth/3242941/
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. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a

https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/ancient-mastodon-tooth-found-jogger-beach-so-excited-get-call
An ancient mastodon tooth was found on a beach in northern California earlier this week. ... Dating back to the Ice Age, mastodons refer to a group of giant elephant-like species, including the

https://www.kron4.com/news/california/mastodon-mystery-in-santa-cruz-county-ice-age-tooth-vanishes-from-beach/
The first mastodon ever discovered in Santa Cruz County was found more than 40 years ago in Aptos Creek, just upstream from the tooth. In 1980, Jim Stanton was only 16 years old when he found a

https://www.wpbf.com/article/diver-mastodon-tusk-venice-florida-coast/60897842
VENICE, Fla. —. A four-foot, 60-pound mastodon tusk was recently found about a half mile off the coast of Venice. Alex Lundberg was scuba diving with Blair Morrow when he made the discovery

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/mastodon-tooth-discovered-santa-cruz-beach-18126111.php
A beachgoer found a prehistoric tooth belonging to a mastodon in Santa Cruz County. The tooth was turned in to a local museum on May 30. A man who picked up the 5,000-year-old tooth of an ancient

https://www.kron4.com/news/california/ice-age-mastodon-tooth-recovered-in-santa-cruz-county-museum-officials-say/
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A mastodon mystery has been solved in Santa Cruz County. On Tuesday, a beach jogger turned in a giant mastodon tooth dating back to the Ice Ages, officials with th

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/06/01/ancient-mastodon-tooth-fossil-found-on-beach-in-aptos/
The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History added a breathtaking ancient artifact to its collection this week after an almost 12-inch tooth belonging to a mastodon - a mammal from the last ice age

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/mastodon-tooth-found-on-beach-in-us-town-handed-over-to-museum-4084716
The one-foot-long tooth was found on Rio Del Mar beach near Aptos Creek by a tourist on Friday, according to local news outlet KRON4. She photographed the strange object, left it on the beach and

https://www.newsweek.com/lifetime-mastodon-fossil-tooth-found-south-carolina-beach-1902430
Last year, a woman found an incredible 12 million-year-old megalodon tooth while on the beach in Venice, Florida. Earlier this year, paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a brand-new species of