The once-in-a-lifetime skeleton is the most complete gomphothere fossil from its time period discovered in Florida.
—likely died about 5 million years ago. It wasn't long before scientists discovered there weren't just remains here, but several full skeletons, the newspaper reported.
This stock photo shows a modern elephant walking through a forest. The skeleton of an extinct ancestor of the elephants was recently uncovered in Florida."I started coming upon one after another of toe and ankle bones," retired chemistry teacher and Montbrook volunteer Dean Warner told the."As I continued to dig, what turned out to be the ulna and radius started to be uncovered. We all knew that something special had been found.
Most of the specimens were juveniles, and to"make things complicated" the team was finding them on top of the one large skeleton, the museum's blog post said. The large skeleton is about 8 feet tall. The discovery of this species is not unusual for the site. However, it is the most complete skeleton found from the time period in Florida.
"Modern elephants travel in herds and can be very protective of their young, but I don't think this was a situation in which they all died at once," Rachel Narducci, the collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum, told the."It seems like members of one or multiple herds got stuck in this one spot at different times."
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