Mammoth Tooth Found In Downtown San Francisco

Posted by timothy on Friday September 14, 2012 @11:33AM from the that'll-put-somebody's-kids-through-college dept.

DevotedSkeptic writes with this excerpt pulled from the San Francisco Chronicle:"A seemingly ordinary day at the Transbay Transit Center construction site became a mammoth day of discovery Monday when a mild-mannered crane operator reached deep into the earth and pulled out a tooth. This was no ordinary tooth. The 10-inch-long brown, black and beige chomper, broken in two and missing a chunk, once belonged to a woolly mammoth, an elephantine creature that roamed the grassy valley that's now San Francisco Bay 10 to 15 thousand years ago in the Pleistocene epoch."

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Re:meet the by AG+the+other · 2012-09-14 11:43 · Score: 1, Informative

Wish I had some mod points. That's a good one.

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Re:Stop work! NOT by ukemike · 2012-09-14 14:42 · Score: 3, Informative

Sadly for the Transit Authority, all work will have to be stopped and archeologists will have to be called in. I expect this project will lose at least two years in construction time.
From TFA
"Excavation work in the area was halted while the find was examined, but Allen said that because of the depth of the discovery, it's unsafe and unrealistic to send someone down to inspect the site, so digging was allowed to continue. "

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