My question: what does the “manner” of the crane operator have to do with this story? Would the find have been any less significant if the crane operator had been gruff and obnoxious?
Here the pieces of the tooth are shown in relation to a gold nugget found at the dig earlier. Further question: How does displaying the tooth next to a gold nugget provide the reader with a sense of the size of the fossil? Gold nuggets could be any size. A comparison picture should be the tooth placed next to something of a fixed size, such as a penny.
Journalism standards have certainly deteriorated since I was in school. This whole report, while interesting, is written in an odd manner.
OK, I’ll bite...how big was it?
(he who reads headlines only;)
San Francisco???
was it a Gay Mammouth (does this foliage make my butt look big)
or the Masterbaterdon...whose inability to mate doomed him to extinction
“10 million to 15 million years ago in the Pleistocene “
I bet this is a typo and means to say 1.0 to 1.5. 15 million years ago was the Miocene and that would be extremely early for mammoth fossils in N. America.