'Bones of great beasts' found in amazing petrified forest in California
"Few other fossil discoveries like this exist in California," a California State University paleontologist said. By Story at a glance A government ranger discovered a petrified forest while on patrol last year. Found in California’s Mokelumne River watershed, the petrified forest also contained fossils from the Miocene era, around 10 million years ago. During a survey of the area, 600 petrified trees, a rhino skeleton and an 8-million-year-old mastodon skull were uncovered there. A government ranger in California discovered “bones of great beasts” amid a petrified for...
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