The ancient fossil is between 11,500 years and 300,000 years old Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

SANTA CRUZ — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons and ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — Elementary school students were playing in the forest when they found a strange object. The curious kids suspected it was a bone from a very big animal that once lived in ...

A rare fossilized bone from a giant ice age creature is now on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. KAZU's Jerimiah Oetting reports that the fossil was likely unearthed by intense ...

PUBLIC WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT'S BEING DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE RAREST FOSSIL FINDINGS IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY HISTORY BY LOCAL A PALEONTOLOGIST.. ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER JAKE FLORES IS LIVE IN SANTA CRUZ ...

A day playing under the California sun became a history-making adventure for a curious group of elementary school students. On Wednesday, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History announced that it's ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons ...