A Geologist in California Found Something Strange Sticking Out of a Creek. A Reverse Image Search Told Her It Was an Ancient Mastodon Tooth
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“A geologist discovered an unusual object protruding from a creek bed in California and used a reverse image search to identify it as a tooth from an extinct mastodon.”
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