Mammoth Found in the
Guadalupe River
San Jose, Ca.

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MAN BEHIND GUADALUPE MAMMOTH FIND
Source: MIKE CASSIDY column Mercury News
 If anybody was going to find what's left of that 15,000-year-old mammoth near the banks of the Guadalupe River, it was Roger Castillo.The San Jose forklift mechanic lives the river.For most of his life he's waded in it, fished in it, videotaped it, measured it and talked about it to anybody who would listen.''It's my river,'' Castillo, 44, says.OK. It's all of ours. But the rest of us don't pay much attention to it. The Guadalupe-who?
Published on July 15, 2005, Page 3A, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

MYSTERY SOLVED: IT'S A MAMMOTH
Source: LISA M. KRIEGER, Mercury News
A scientist confirmed Wednesday that the mysterious bones found near San Jose's Guadalupe River belong to an ancient and long-extinct Columbian mammoth, an elephant-like creature that roamed the Santa Clara Valley tens of thousands of years ago.Crouching down in the soft sand, encircled by news media, Mark Goodwin of the University of California-Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology gently touched the large, pale objects.''Oh yeah, these are definitely fossil.
Published on July 14, 2005, Page 1A, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

MAMMOTH BONES GOING TO MUSEUM
Source: MELISSA NAVAS, Mercury News
Bones from a mammoth found in San Jose last month are getting a new home -- and a makeover.University of California-Berkeley paleontologist Mark Goodwin and two graduate students finished excavating mammoth bones from a North San Jose site near the Guadalupe River on Monday -- just one week after they began.Next stop for the bones: the UC Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley next week. There, the staff will treat 10 fragile bones with hardening chemicals and clean them.
Published on August 9, 2005, Page 3A, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

MINING A MAMMOTH
Source: MELISSA NAVAS, Mercury News
Graduate student Jenny McGuire gingerly used a fine-point pick to scrape near the bones of a mammoth tusk. She poked at each hard object she found, looking for pieces that wouldn't crumble as a result of the force. Those could be bones.Across from her, University of California-Berkeley paleontologist Mark Goodwin picked up a hammer and began pounding away at the area around the other tusk.
Published on August 2, 2005, Page 3A, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

BONES IN S.J. MUD EXCITE FOSSIL-HUNTERS
Source: LISA M. KRIEGER, Mercury News
The bones of a large and perhaps prehistoric creature have been found in a canal next to the Guadalupe River in North San Jose, an exciting discovery that could shed light on the ancient mammals that once roamed the Santa Clara Valley.Or it could be a cow.Resting in sandy clay, the pale skeletal remains have not yet been identified. But the tusk-like appearance of some of the bones suggests that they belonged to a Columbian mammoth -- an elephant-like creature that grazed in the valley over 15,000 years ago.
Published on July 13, 2005, Page 1A, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

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The Moment of Discovery

Large shell found mid section 45 yard down pump station. disciction 4 1/2 inches long by 2 3/4 wide,

As I walked iabserving eroded contours of the bypass of the river.
As I was coming up to the pool
observing eroding clay banks created
Looking at the pool from a distance I observed in the right top side of picture contours dug the water looked to me like center back bone and ribs , but end up being sand and clay.

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A close up look view at carved out clay layer which looked from a distance like back bone and ribs cavity. These clay layers could be tens of thousands of years old. From a distance can you see a fossil find?
How I stopped over the bone and looked down with my Puppy Jenna an English Yellow Lab beside me, I said to my self boy that looks like a large big bone. I reached down to pick up a fragment to examine it, right away I say is this Fossilized.That's when I took a step back and saw what you see in the next picture,
the whole layout of a large animal. As I stood there everything got Oh so quite! and I felt so awestruck. Then I picked up my cell phone and started to making calls to agencies so they could assist me in turning off pump station that was releasing tens of thousands of gallon in to the bypass of the river where it was carring fragments of bone parts down the river, I recovered several fragments and a large section of Tusk. From as close to the immediate area to 400 feet down stream. I had to pick up as much as possible before the pump station would release the wall of water again.