Mammoth Tooth Found In Downtown San Francisco

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."

meet the

[binarylarry]

I hope he held it high in the air and yelled "Yabba dabba dooooooo!"

Hey Barney!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"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.

He proceeded to shout in a peculiar dialect and then slide barefoot down the spine of his crane to the bedrock below. Excited about this new discovery... or maybe it was that it was quittin time, he sang a catchy little tune and pushed his car home. According to legend, he had ribs for dinner.

Pleistocene was a paradise

[Spy Handler]

There was no SF Bay when that mammoth was walking around. Evil humans hadn't begun changing the climate and melting glaciers yet, so the sea level was at its optimum. SF and NY were hundreds of miles inland, so real estate prices were affordable. Chicago was under several kilometers of ice, thank goodness.

All in all, a wonderful time.

Re:meet the

[wonkey_monkey]

People from Dubai don't like The Flintstones, but those from Abu Dhabi do.

Re:meet the

[xevioso]

stop. just...stop.

Tooth Fairy

[Delarth799]

Wonder how much Ill get for putting this big ol tooth under the pillow

Re:if we can't get jurrasic park

[NoMaster]

can we at least get pleistocene park?

We can't even manage Holocene Park properly - the dominant animal at the top of the food chain runs rampant, destroying everything in its sight, and is starting to escape its confines and invade neighbouring locations - and you want to start on Pleistocene Park?

Re:Pleistocene was a paradise

[517714]

Well of course the mammoth wasn't native to the bay area, the tooth was "brown, black and beige," obviously it was British.

Re:meet the

[Dogtanian]

I wish I could, but I can't. What's E.T. short for?

Evolutionary reasons- the gravity on his home planet is relatively high.