



The twisted adventure begins when Psy-Crow loses his space suit on Earth, and a lowly earthworm named Jim happens to crawl inside. Although this cart is graphically slick, it suffers from dismal controls. Thompson determined that the object was a worn molar from an adult Pacific mastodon, an extinct elephant-like species.One of 1994's most popular games, Earthworm Jim could take the handheld world by storm. The answer came from Wayne Thompson, paleontology collections advisor for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. So she snapped some photos and posted them on Facebook, asking for help. “It looked kind of weird, like burnt almost.” “I was on one side of the creek and this lady was talking to me on the other side and she said what’s that at your feet,” Schuh recounted. Jennifer Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out of the sand on Friday at the mouth of Aptos Creek on Rio Del Mar State Beach, located off Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County on California’s central coast. (AP) - A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.īut then the fossil vanished, and it took a media blitz and a kind-hearted jogger to find it again. Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out of the sand on Friday at the mouth of Aptos Creek on Rio Del Mar State Beach, located off Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County. A Northern California woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on the beach has discovered a mastodon tooth that's at least 5,000 years old. This May 26, 2023, photo provided by the Jennifer Schuh shows a Mastodon Tooth in the sand at an Aptos, Calif., beach.
