Freeway project unearths a time when camels roamed San Diego

Paleontologists working at an excavation site in Otay Mesa, California, on July 9. A trove of fossils that could be as old as 28 million years have been unearthed where a freeway is being built that will connect to a new border crossing. — TNS

Paleontologists will tell you that field work is a lot like fishing. Nothing happens for long periods of time. But you can’t catch anything if you don’t have your line in the water.

In San Diego, the United States, they’ve had their line in the water. Again.