‘Well-preserved’ rare mammoth skull unearthed in Channel Islands puzzles scientists

The skull of a mammoth — possibly roaming the planet 13,000 years ago — was unearthed from an eroding stream in the Santa Rosa Island at Channel Islands National Park. Burrowed in the stream bank, the “exceptionally well-preserved fossil” with tusks is a rare find, especially because it would indicate the mammoth roamed the islands at…