The giant beast would have roamed the area between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. A palaeontologist said that they found a pair of elephant-like tusks emerging out the ground . It could be the remains of a Columbian mammoth .
The giant beast would have roamed the area between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. A pair of elephant-like tusks , a huge pelvic bone and the animal's rib cage were found by an amateur naturalist while walking a dog along a canal near San Jose's Guadalupe River, near recent flood control dredging . It could be the remains of a Columbian mammoth , according to paleontologists who expect to study the site like an archeological "dig," with shovels, sieves and brushes, during the summer of 2005.
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, according to paleontologists who expect to study the site like an archeological "dig," with shovels, sieves and brushes, during the summer of 2005.