As a runner trekked across a California beach, something caught his eye. Jim Smith, who frequently runs in the Aptos area in Santa Cruz County, kept on going, though, Liz Broughton, the visitor ...

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 without ...

A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media ...

PTOS, Calif. (AP) — A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, ...

A mastodon tooth washed up on a California beach and then went missing. A local museum tried to track it down. It's pretty common to find seashells or coral on the beach. Outside Santa Cruz, Calif., a ...

A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media ...

She left the fossil behind, but took a picture of it and shared it on Facebook. A user identified it as a mastodon molar — leading to a frantic search for the missing tooth. APTOS, Calif. (AP) — A ...

A massive mastodon tooth dating from the Ice Age has been turned into a local museum by a jogger after it was initially discovered on a California beach before disappearing once someone posted the ...

KARNES CITY - Davy Villanueva isn't an outgoing guy, so handling the notoriety generated by his discovery of a mastodon tooth last month has been a big adjustment. "Now I know what all the celebrities ...