Ancient Cretaceous Echosystem Being Uncovered

Enthusiastic scientists say bones coming out of Utah's Grand Staircase National Monument are rewriting the age of the dinosaurs, when they last lived. The area has become a gold mine for paleontologists, with the latest discovery airlifted from its grave this week..........

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Mammoth Bones in California

Scientists disinterred more bits and pieces of San Jose's Pleistocene mammoth Thursday and packed them up in preparation for their trip to Berkeley, where they will join the rest of the animal for study.
Several bleached and broken ribs -- the kind of thing you might find in the trash at Henry's Hi-Life 12,000 years ago -- were discovered by a team of University of California-Berkeley paleontologists earlier this month at the site on the edge of the Guadalupe River.
In July, while walking with his dog, San Jose environmentalist Roger Castillo first found the bones in a canal on Santa Clara Valley Water District property. Further study by the Berkeley team yielded pieces of the animal's thigh, toes, pelvis, tusks, a possible vertebra and one or two other mystery bones.
They are thought to belong to an ancient and long-extinct Columbian mammoth, an elephant-like creature that roamed the valley tens of thousands of years ago..........

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