Jawbone from "Zed"
There was a big discovery in Los Angeles in late 2008. Some scientists found an almost complete skeleton of a Colombian Mammoth. They said the mammoth, which they named Zed, was an 80 % complete skeleton. Zed was only missing a back leg, part of his spine, and the top of his skull. Zed was ten feet tall and was about 47-49 years old. They found his tusks , intact which is very rare to find because tusks are more fragile than bone and can break easily.
They also found some other things as well: a full skeleton of a saber tooth tiger, six dire wolf skulls, bones from an American lion, tree trunks, turtles, snails, clams, fish, millipedes, and leaves.
The scientists didn’t have enough time to get the fossils out of the dirt one at a time so they mapped the ground and dug trenches and lifted the soil and all in big plastic sheet’s and built crates around them. By the time they had all the fossils (and dirt) in the crates there were 23 crates in all. They have only opened 3 crates so far and they think it will take 5 years to open all of them.