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Two men were scuba diving in Peace River, located in Arcadia, Florida, when they made one massive discovery. They found a gigantic bone belonging to a now-extinct Columbian mammoth. Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler were searching for fossils in the river when they came upon the huge 4-foot-long, 50-pound leg bone. In fact, the discovery was completely unexpected as they had initially planned on diving for shark teeth in the Floridian city of Venice, but the wind was so strong that they instead went to Arcadia’s Peace River. And it certainly worked out for them as the mammoth bone was their gr...

Florida divers find Columbian mammoth leg bone from Ice Age-era at the bottom of a river Howard Cohen, The Miami Herald May 5—Florida beaches give up all sorts of, well, treasures. Sometimes you find bales of drugs valued at over a million. (Not that you get to keep it.) A naval sea mine washed ashore along Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in April. And just a month prior, U.S. military target drone washed ashore on the beach at Ocean Ridge Hammock Park. But what Derek Demeter, the director of Seminole State College's Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium, and his pal Henry Sadler, ...

Rare Ice Age Mammoth Bone Found in Florida - Photo © Wikipedia / Mauricio Antón https://sputniknews.com/science/202105041082795332-rare-ice-age-mammoth-bone-found-in-florida---photo/ Aside from the mammoth bone, two paleontologists discovered parts of an extinct shark and the tooth of a sabre-tooth tiger that will be put on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Two Florida scuba divers have stumbled upon a large mammoth bone that may date back to the ice age, according to The Orlando Sentinel.  While diving in a river in southwest F...

Tuesday's Afternoon Update | 5/4/2021 Charlie Crist, man of many political comebacks, launches another campaign for Florida governor U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist officially launched his campaign for Florida governor on Tuesday, the first major candidate to jump into the Democratic primary with hopes of taking on Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022. This will be Crist’s second attempt at winning back the job he held from 2007 to 2011, when he was a Republican. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor in 2014, a race he narrowly lost to Rick Scott, who is now the state’s junior senator. More...

"Once-In-A-Lifetime" Discovery: Florida Scuba Divers Find Ice-Age Mammoth Fossil The four-foot mammoth bone was found at the bottom of the Peace River Two divers found a mammoth leg bone embedded in the sand of Peace River. Two scuba divers from Florida discovered a mammoth four-foot, 50-pound (23-kg approximately) bone, possibly dating back to the Ice Age, while diving in a local river. Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler found the bone embedded in the sand at the bottom of the Peace River. Henry shared the image on Instagram, saying that it was a "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery. "I was fortunat...