Florida beaches are giving up all sorts of treasures.
Sometimes you find Bales of medicine Worth more than a million. (It cannot be maintained.) A mine It was launched on the shore along Lauderdale by the Sea in April. And just a month ago, U.S. military unmanned target aircraft It was washed ashore on the beach of Ocean Ridge Hammock Park.
However, Derekdemer, director of the Emilbuehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium at Seminole State University, and his fellow Henry Sadler, a Florida school teacher, scuba dived on the Peace River in Arcadia on April 25. I discovered that it was buried in the sand while I was there. for a long time.
The pair discovered a giant Columbian mammoth leg bone dating back to the Ice Age. How long was a 4-foot, 50-pound body part sitting under sand and water? Try it for over 10,000 years. Maybe 2.6 million.At that time, these huge furs Columbian mammoth ancestors According to the National Park Service, the elephants were free to roam.The exact age is not clear, but Demeter is about to find the femur 100,000 years Old, he told Fox 35 Orlando.
“This is much denser, so we think it’s somewhere in the middle,” he said of the age of the femur, which once carried a giant beast across Florida’s prehistoric savanna meadows. talked.
My friend Henry Sadler and I discovered this giant Columbian mammoth leg bone on scuba diving this weekend …
Contributor Derek Demeter on Tuesday, April 27, 2021
“Sharing with so many people was a great experience,” Demeter told the Miami Herald.
“you Reveal this fossil And you’ll probably find these giant elephant-like creatures roaming around Florida’s former meadows, which gives you a mysterious sensation of what it was like in ancient times. ” He told Orlando Sentinel. “It’s like our time travel. It upsets your imagination.”
Previous fossil discoveries of Sadler and Demeter can be found at the Florida Museum of Natural History. However, this Columbian mammoth leg bone is in the Sadler classroom at Admiral Farragut Academy and teaches science at a school in St. Petersburg. There, it helps give his students a real feel about the Ice Age and the life of its animals. “You can see, touch, feel, and actually know the history of nature,” his students told Orlando Sentinel.