Smith holds the ancient mastodon molar tooth he discovered at a beach in Rio Del Mar on Tuesday and the two stand in front of the juvenile mastodon skull also found in Aptos in 1980. (Contributed ...

Smith holds the ancient mastodon molar tooth he discovered at a beach in Rio Del Mar on Tuesday and the two stand in front of the juvenile mastodon skull also found in Aptos in 1980. (Contributed ...

‘An Extremely Important Find': Ancient Mastodon Tooth Found on Calif. Beach The age of the tooth isn't clear. A museum blog says mastodons generally roamed California from about 5 million to ...

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.

Jennifer 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 on ...

A gigantic tooth that once belonged to an ancient mastodon was discovered, lost and then found again over Memorial Day weekend, after a tourist saw and photographed it on a California beach ...

Jennifer 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 on ...

APTOS — Who said the tooth fairy doesn’t deliver? Sometimes it just takes a couple of hundred thousand years. The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History added a breathtaking ancient artifact to ...