Tag: fossils

Crews uncover mammoths and other Ice Age fossils while grading jobsite near San Diego

While grading the site of a new home development near San Diego, construction crews uncovered fossils paleontologists have dated all the way back to the Ice Age. According to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, the workers at the Carlsbad jobsite unearthed the bones of “ancient mammoths, horses, turtles and even a prehistoric bison—the second ever […]

September 23, 2015

A plaster mold is applied to one of the mammoth bones found at the site. Photo Credit: Cornerstone Communities

California dam construction unearths collection of 20 million-year-old fossils

Since construction began in 2011 on the new dam for the Calaveras Reservoir near Malpitas, California, construction crews and paleontologists have unearthed an impressive collection of fossils dating as far back as 20 million years. Paleontologist Jim Walker tells the San Jose Mercury News that the collection of fossils give scientists an idea of what […]

July 8, 2014

Paleontologist Jim Walker combs the hillside at Calaveras Reservoir for fossils. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group

Construction worker uncovers mammoth tusk from Ice Age (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

While excavating for plumbing trenches on the jobsite of a high-rise apartment complex in the Seattle, Washington neighborhood of south Union Lake, a construction worker uncovered what may be the greatest archaeological find in the city’s history. And he did it with just a shovel. Transit plumbing worker Joe Wells moved a pile of dirt […]

February 18, 2014

Joe Wells, of Transit Plumbing, with the fossil of a mammoth tusk he uncovered near Seattle. Credit: Transit Plumbing/Associated Press

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Backhoe operator discovers rare 35-foot dinosaur fossil

After all the interesting bones and artifacts discovered on jobsites this year alone, we’re beginning to wonder what archaeologists would do without construction crews. The latest addition to the list is rare type of dinosaur fossil find. While clearing a site for the installation of an oil pipeline in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada, a backhoe […]

October 9, 2013

Credit: Tourmaline Oil. Corp. via the Edmonton Journal

Construction crew uncovers fossils of four new whale species

Construction crews on both coasts of the U.S. have been doing double duty as archaeologists as of late. First was a report of a crew in Charleston uncovering 27 American Revolution-era graves, and now comes a report from CBS that a road construction crew in Southern California has discovered the fossils of four new […]

February 22, 2013

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