Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
How paleontologists are using fossilized shark teeth to date the past
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
Florida fossil sites are unique in that they possess some of the richest fossil sediments for important times in geologic history. These sites can help us understand changing climates, vegetation ...
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
To do our study, we selected shark tooth specimens from two significant Neogene-period fossil sites in Florida. The Neogene, from 2.6 to 23.5 million years ago, was a time of immense change in ...