Jim Smith discovered what his rare find was when he saw it pop up on the news.
, paleontologist Wayne Thompson of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History had been frantically searching for the ancient fossil. The scientist had first been alerted to its potential location when someone tagged him in a Facebook post from a woman who posted a photo of it at the beach, but when he went to search for it alongside her, it was gone. So, Thompson took to social media asking the person who found the artifact to come forward.
“Fossils in Santa Cruz County are fairly rare,” Liz Broughton, the visitor experience manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, said. “That makes this find pretty invaluable to science.” Smith eventually turned up at the museum so he could donate the fossil, estimated to be about 10 inches long.
“When it was turned in, I was absolutely amazed,” Thompson said, adding that the museum plans to run tests to determine the tooth’s age before putting it on display. He believes it is about 5,000 years old.
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