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Fla. teen stumbles upon mammoth tooth
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Posted on 02/21/2007 8:03:15 PM PST by george76
archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century...
The jaw and tooth weigh 65 pounds and are about a yard long. Sarti-Sweeney took the bones home and, after some online research with her older brother, determined the football-sized rock was actually the tooth of a long-extinct mammoth.
Paleontology and archaeology experts have confirmed the find, and recent digging at the site has turned up teeth and bones from a second mammoth, giant sloths, camels, turtles with shells up to 6-feet-long, saber-toothed cats and giant armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles.
Scientists believe the remains are between 10,000 and 100,000 years old.
"It's possible that it's an old river valley, (and) the animals got caught in the muck or the river washed all these animals down into one place at one time," he said. "We can get a better handle on it by analyzing the soil," said Richard Estabrook, director of USF's Florida Public Archaeology Network.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: archaeology; armadillos; camels; cats; cryptobiology; giantarmadillos; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; mastodons; paleontology; sabertoothed; sabertoothedcats; sabretoothcat; sabretoothed; sabretoothedcat; sabretoothedtiger; sabretoothtiger; sloths; smilodon
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To: School of Rational Thought
They sure sure got around
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posted on
02/21/2007 8:50:41 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: TChad
Yeah, I forgot to check the image size, my bad.
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:11:43 PM PST
by
LukeL
(Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
To: george76
Outstanding. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:19:32 PM PST
by
FreeKeys
("Once Hillary is elected she will create a new form of secret police."- Dick Morris (her ex-employee)
To: george76
giant armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles
Wow! That means they have to find a giant armadillo the size of mini-vans over in Texas, because everyone knows that everything is bigger in Texas.
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:21:34 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: Jaysun
My view skips from post 3 to post 5. What's up?
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:25:27 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: DannyTN
Yes that is amazing isn't it? I swear the little ones can get 40" of lift in a flat out run. Obviously you have seen how fast they can dig too then
Maybe they could have the extinct armadillo Olympics.
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:26:51 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: george76
"Scientists believe the remains are between 10,000 and 100,000 years old."
WOW, its not really an exact science is it? thats quite a range there.
LOL, how much is that new car?
well, its between $10,000 and $100,000.
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:48:55 PM PST
by
treffner
To: Jaysun
Interesting, no post #4...
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posted on
02/21/2007 9:52:02 PM PST
by
null and void
(Let's play 6° of global warming...)
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To: george76; SunkenCiv
"It's possible that it's an old river valley, (and) the animals got caught in the muck or the river washed all these animals down into one place at one time," sounds catastrophic.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:08:11 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
To: george76
Can you imagine what a toothache would be like?
To: Fred Nerks
It always has that appearance. But no, no, modern science cant look there.
Its all about protecting the ivory tower/fortress.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:15:02 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: george76; Fred Nerks; Sam Ketcham; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:22:54 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Fred Nerks; 75thOVI; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; Brujo; ...
Fred Nerks: sounds catastrophic
Good point. :') New footer for 2007.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:26:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: RunningWolf
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:38:28 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
To: george76
I know someone who found about half a mastodon tooth in this same county back in the 70's. It was in the stuff dredged out of a rain retention pond. Florida is one gigantic shoal of fossils. All over Pinellas County at a depth of about 7 feet is a layer of still-shiny sea shells.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:44:57 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Fred Nerks
"It's possible that it's an old river valley, (and) the animals got caught in the muck or the river washed all these animals down into one place at one time,"
sounds catastrophic.
1.Global Warming
2.It's Bush's fault
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:46:50 PM PST
by
SantosLHalper
(Liberals - The first to cry for tolerance. The first to shut you up when you don't agree with them.)
To: Fred Nerks
Wow!
Saving that article.
/the battle was over, that the critics had won. Mainstream science, he said, would never permit an objective hearing on the subject of ******/
He was wrong though, the battle is never over (by mans will) but I can understand why he was overwhelmed by that emotional conclusion.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:59:36 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: george76
did the teen give out a Homeresque "Doh!" when the stumble occurred?
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posted on
02/21/2007 11:09:44 PM PST
by
isom35
To: RunningWolf
I hoped you would like it...
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posted on
02/21/2007 11:52:51 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
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