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Giant Camels and More Treasures Discovered in Fossilized California Forest


Giant Camels and More Treasures Discovered in Fossilised California Forest
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Mastodon teeth, dug out of an ancient petrified forest in California. (Photo: Jason Halley (California State University, Chico))
First, the trees came out of the ground. A few weeks later, the bones emerged. Bit by bit over the past year, a team of paleontologists and geologists, among others, have uncovered the fossilised remains of a Miocene forest, from its gomphotheres and mastodons to the trees themselves.
A park ranger, Greg Francek, stumbled upon the site last summer. It lies east of San Francisco, near what is today the Mokelumne River. “I was on patrol out on the watershed and I happened upon a petrified tree,” Francek said in a statement put out by the East Bay Municipal Utility District. “After finding dozens of trees, I began to realise that what I was looking at was the petrified remains of a forest.” Further excavations over the following weeks yielded bones, and ....

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