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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
RW, has anyone yet offered a plausible explanation for the flash freezing which appears to have taken place with many preserved prehistoric animals?
I tend to think it was not flash freezing.
Buttercups in the bellies of mammoths is one thing, but tissue tends to hold up well if the air is cool to begin with. The animals here in the gold fields have been ground up, which means something moved but it need not have been sudden. The musk oxen found standing by the river frozen upright are a mystery of sorts, but they are out in the weather and a wind and minus 60 is not unheard of. They might also have been caught in a heavy dust storm in that weather like Pompeii. It is a little mysterious, but a cataclysm would not have been necessary to produce the results.
An armadillo the size of a VW...hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I’m thinking gas savings. Can I get it in leather?
Apparently old miners tools have been found in old mines that were covered up by ice thousands of years ago. It was even warmer then. The miners apparently left their tools at the beginning of winter only to never be able to return due to the beginning of the next mini-ice age.
I did not save the link so I am not sure if they Roman or from even earlier times.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060421220004/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/may/dinosaur.php
related archived link, just for the record. (Scroll down)
Ice sheets tend to grind things up and deposit them as the sheet recedes. Fields of drowned or suffocated animals would be no great feat for a glacier to grind up and carry off for deposit.
Are you familiar with Pinellas County? I’m sure you are. Interesting huh?
I would like a mammoth steak and some turtle soup on the side. And a warm roll or two with butter. And a nice salad. And a few beers. And a cigar. And a charming woman getting mad at me because I am just a bear. I cuddle when I get around to cuddling. That’s what gets women really worked up:)
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Lots of limestone and coral rock in Florida
It was once much warmer and wetter there
algore take note
There is a lot of limestone in Texas hillcountry - as we call it. North of Austin and south of Waco areas. Bush’s ranch falls in that area.
The kids went to camp up there and I brought home a lot of limestone rocks with holes all through them, very pretty.
I would be more impressed if they could actually make it to the other side of the road.
Glaciers were not part of the scenery here.
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