Mammoth skull found in California ‘doesn’t fit the profile’ of other species

Image Courtesy of Channel Islands National Park Service via AP
Image Courtesy of Channel Islands National Park Service via AP

By The Associated Press, September 15, 2016 

An exceptionally well preserved fossil of a complete mammoth skull unearthed by a team of scientists from an eroding stream bank on Santa Rosa Island within southern California’s Channel Islands National Park

Los Angeles – Scientists at the Channel Islands National Park, just off the Southern California coast, have excavated a rare and well-preserved mammoth skull fossil from Santa Rosa Island, the park announced Wednesday.

Justin Wilkins, a paleontologist from The Mammoth Site in South Dakota who worked with a team for the past week to unearth the fossil from an eroding stream bank, said the discovery is of high scientific importance.

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