NORFOLK — Thousands of years ago, Hampton Roads was rife with bizarre, enormous creatures. Saber-toothed cats, giant beavers, ground sloths and mastodons roamed the area, according to Alec Zaborniak, non-live collections manager with the Virginia Living Museum.

Now, the remains of a humongous ice age animal have been found near a spot that thousands of motorists drive past every day. Workers recently unearthed around a dozen pieces of a mastodon skeleton while digging at the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.