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SF mammoth tooth fossil on display at Cal Academy

Thursday, November 08, 2012
fossilized tooth of a Columbian mammoth

The recently-discovered fossilized tooth of a wooly mammoth is on display at the California Academy of Sciences. (Photo courtesy California Academy of Sciences.) (KGO Photo)

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A recently-discovered slice of ancient history is now on display at a San Francisco museum. You can see the fossilized tooth of a Columbian mammoth at the California Academy of Sciences.

The fossil was found in September by a crane operator working at the Transbay Transit Center construction site in Downtown San Francisco.

He made the discovery about 100-feet below street level.

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It's a big chunk of an upper tooth belonging to a 12-to-14 foot-tall mammoth that lived more than 8,000 years ago.

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