Florida Fossil Hunters Find Ancient Mammoth Bone, and Weather Was Their Lucky Charm
At a Glance Rough weather in the Gulf of Mexico sent the fossil hunters to an inland river instead.They found the bone on the dark, murky bottom of the Peace River.The mammoth bone is estimated to be about 100,000 years old. Henry Sadler and Derek Demeter had planned to go scuba diving for fossils in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's Gulf Coast on April 25. But conditions were less than favorable due to rough weather in previous days, and...