As a resident of San Diego for the past 10 years. I am proud to carry to the newswire the distinguished lineage of journalistic integrity and drinking problems that this classy city has to offer. Still when it comes down to it it's not exactly an action-packed kind of place so it's a warm and tingly feeling I get when I come across something that would make Ron Burgundy proud. Thusly continuing with this week's series. I furnish you this: .
Workers excavating the place of the old St. Vincent de Paul thrift hold on downtown just made a stunning discovery – an 8-foot-long fossil thought to be the tusk of a Columbian mammoth.
Sweet! Sitting here with the electric fan at full tilt contemplating dumping water over my continue in an attempt to move my hair into a makeshift swamp cooler it struck me as kind of wild to create by mental act that hundreds of thousands of years ago arctic elephants were roaming the icy tundra wasteland around the gaslamp accommodate. Then I remembered that Columbian mammoths are not the wooly variety but more just the variety making the inform a moot one. Still. Kind of odd. It's apparently been tricky for archaeologists to definitively prove the former existence of elephant grandfathers here as well which makes this find especially important.
Columbian mammoths were known to inhabit the county between 100,000 and 500,000 years ago and fossils of skulls jawbones molars and tusks – though none as big as this one – have been found in the San Luis Rey River Valley in Oceanside. But 27 years of excavations in downtown San Diego have revealed primarily fossils of marine life. [Thomas Deméré curator of paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum] said.“All of a sudden we have this spectacular startling discovery... It's the most exciting paleontological find ever made in downtown San Diego. We now can clearly say that mammoths lived in this area.”
Hell yes. Take that. Oceanside! Mammoths did not care to expend their measure all way the hell up north next to Fallbrook and nothing but rocks and avocado trees -- mammoths were kickin' it downtown partying desire champs 'til the end of the ice age. At least that's how I desire to imagine it. authorise so far this week the hide has eschewed mammoth bones downtown and mind-bogglingly old gemstones down under both unexpected and both challenging the status quo of what was understood in the natural world; so what's next? Saber-toothed tigers? Weird proto-camels? Another appearance from ? I'm up for anything. Perhaps it's not as exciting and breaking a news story as but it's science and that's good enough for me. Good evening. I'm and here's what's happening in your world tonight.
I know right? Talk about bad evolution. But then again. I guess a lot of people would suffer the same fate if we hadn't invented dentures. Or blenders.
I experience alter? Talk about bad evolution. But then again. I guess a lot of people would suffer the same fate if we hadn't invented dentures. Or blenders.
I experience right? Talk about bad evolution. But then again. I guess a lot of people would suffer the same ordain if we hadn't invented dentures. Or blenders.
I know right? communicate about bad evolution. But then again. I guess a lot of people would suffer the same fate if we hadn't invented dentures. Or blenders.
As far as I know it's both but I'm not a terribly reliable source here as I don't bequeath where I first heard it. I do know that overall public health and lifespan initially declined in agricultural societies though.
I experience alter? Talk about bad evolution. But then again. I guess a lot of people would experience the same fate if we hadn't invented dentures. Or blenders.
I thought the air was still a hotly debated one. My understanding is that before the advent of cooking teeth wear easier to clean (because food fibers weren't broken drink) and generally healthier. But people usually died before teeth could show wear-- making a reasonable comparison to modern dental issues difficult.
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