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This Underwater Fossil Bed Found In Florida Contains Animals From An Obscure Part Of The Ice Age
About half a million years ago, several sloths, armadillos, and horses fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region. […] ...
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 ...
Houston Chronicle12d
Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
How we did our work 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 ...
Oil disaster pushes Florida event international including three sites in Minnesota
Hands Across the Sand” began in Florida as a warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling even before the Gulf of Mexico disaster, and this Saturday, post-disaster, it goes ...
Connecticut Post12d
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 ...