{"id":469135,"date":"2026-09-19T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469135\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:04:16","slug":"ancient-mastodon-tooth-found-in-california-creek-may-point-to-more-remains-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469135\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient mastodon tooth found in California creek may point to more remains buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Wayne Thompson, CEO of Pacific Paleontology, told Fox News Digital that the exceptionally rare Pacific mastodon tooth discovered in a California creek could be between 50,000 and 100,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Pacific Paleontology CEO Wayne Thompson told Fox News Digital that the mastodon molar\u2019s remarkably intact roots suggest it had not traveled far \u2014 and that the animal\u2019s skull and other bones may still be buried at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Thompson, CEO of Pacific Paleontology, told Fox News Digital that the exceptionally rare Pacific mastodon tooth discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118814,7,9,8,14019,118813,5050],"class_list":["post-469135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}