Mastodon
"Max", the holotype Pacific mastodon, got his name because of his size. Even before he was completely removed from the ground, it was clear that Max was one of the biggest mastodons ever found in California. And yet, we don't know exactly how big he was.
Mastodon
As I mentioned last week, many of the Western Science Center's fossils are actually recovered by paleontology mitigation companies, thanks to California's robust protections for fossil resources. Most of these companies are highly skilled and professional and do a great job recovering the specimens and their
Paleontology
Last Monday, several of our staff members visited a fossil locality on National Forest Service land in San Bernardino County that we've been excavating for a number of years under an NFS permit. The deposit exposes a conglomerate of the Cajon Valley Formation, which is middle Miocene in