SAN JOSE: A scientist from University of California, Berkeley confirmed Wednesday that a cluster of fossilised bones found in Silicon Valley are likely those of a mammoth that roamed the area between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. Local officials uncovered on Tuesday what appear to be a massive pelvic bone, ribcage fragments and a tusk in the sandy banks of a canal adjacent to San Jose’s Guadalupe River, which was recently dredged for flood protection. “It looks like there are a pair of elephant tusks weathering out on the banks of the Guadalupe,” paleontologist Mark Goodwin said. Goodwin believes they are the fossilised remains of a Columbian mammoth, an elephantlike creature that grazed in the San Francisco Bay area’s savannas many years ago.— AP