Tag: Florida
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Fossil Hunter Pulls Massive Mammoth Jawbone Out of Florida River
The jawbone likely belonged to a Columbian mammoth. Fossil Junkies via Facebook Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of a Mammoth jawbone in Florida. The bone was found in the Peace River near Arcadia, Florida. The Peace River is known for producing fossils from the Pleistocene. The bone is probably 10,000 years old and likely…
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Can You Identify?
A reader writes in, “… I have been doing countless web searches in hopes to find someone in IL who can help me out with a rather interesting find (and it looks like I might have found the right people).While I was vacationing down in Northern Florida (around the Jacksonville Area), I came across an…
