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Science

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Mon Aug 13, 2018, 01:21 AM Aug 2018

Fossil of woolly mammoth discovered in Florida, could be up to 250,000 years old

Tony Sadiku
7:50 PM, Aug 10, 2018
12:15 PM, Aug 11, 2018

CAPE CORAL, Fla., — A Florida utilities crew discovered a fossil archeologists now believe may be of a woolly mammoth or mastodon.

The crew was digging in a trench 17 feet below the ground in Cape Coral last month.

The crew turned over the fossil to the city which brought in archeologists to assess it.

Robert Carr with the Archeological and Historical Conservancy says the fossil fragment was probably part of the mammoth’s humorous bone, or upper arm.

More:
https://www.turnto23.com/news/national/fossil-of-woolly-mammoth-discovered-in-florida-could-be-up-to-250-000-years-old