While digging the 4th bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, fossil hunters sift through the dirt looking for the remains of camels, mastodons, rhinoceroses and wild dogs that once roamed the East Bay in bygone days.
Not many of us know that when inside the tunnel, you’re driving under 16-million-year-old marine rocks, fossils of microscopic single-celled plants and animals which were once deposited in the ocean.
Private paleontologists have been hired by Caltrans to monitor the construction site. They have already unearthed remains of fish scales, plants, bone bits and even the tooth of a camel, which may date back some 10 million years.
Fossils from earlier digs at the site are at UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology.
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