Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Western Science Center Museum docent April Mejia carefully works to remove some of the matrix covering this part of the upper front leg bone (humerus) of an extinct mastodon found in a construction site in the Grizzly Ranch area of Temecula.
Leya Collins, weighing just over 100 pounds, is just as capable with a jackhammer, and maybe even more so, as a 250-pound well-built, suntanned construction worker.
With one hand, Collins can carefully chip open a hard casing that a construction worker wouldn't dare to tackle. She is glad to show her skill to dozens of children and students as they pass through her "construction" area.
Where would this be? It is the fossil preparation lab in the Western Science Center Museum in Hemet. Collins, an archeologist, is the paleo preparatory laboratory manager at the center in charge of preparing fos...
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