FRANCE: Workers at a construction site near San Diego unknowingly unearthed Ice Age fossils of animals like Columbian Mammoth, Bison, turtles and horses, the San Diego Natural History Museum confirmed.
Led by project superintendent John Suster of developer Cornerstone Communities of San Diego, workers noticed the remains of the ancient animals during the construction work and notified the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Tom Deméré, a curator of paleontology at the museum, said the fossils were found in July. Demere is working with his team with a hope to find more fossils at the site. The curator said the fossils belong to as many as 200,000-year-old animals who might have roamed the region during the Pleistocene Epoch or last Ice Age.
Speaking about the unprecedented discovery, Deméré added, “It’s really an exciting project in terms of the geology and paleontology. The fossils have the potential to tell us a great deal about the climate, the environment, the ecology of that time.”
Large construction projects that require massive amounts of earth to be moved are required to have at least one paleontologist on site as per state of California’s regulations.
The developer has plans to construct nearly six hundred apartments and condos at the site. Nearly 90 two-storey row homes will be constructed during the first phase of the project.
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