Columbian Mammoths in San Diego?
That’s right. While excavating the site of the old St. Vincent de Paul thrift store, the crew from Roel Construction discovered an 8-foot-long tusk of a Columbian mammoth!
The fossil was found 30 feet down at 16th and Market streets, where a 14-story housing project will be built.
According to Tom Deméré, Ph.D., curator of paleontology 
at the San Diego Natural History Museum, the tusk could be as much as 500,000 years old. Similar fossils have previously been found in Oceanside, but this is the first mammoth unearthed in San Diego in the 27 years that excavation has been going on in the area.
St. Vincent de Paul Village’s Father Joe Carroll plans to work with the museum so that the public will have access to this historic find.
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