Henry Sadler was diving in Florida s Peace River when he made an incredible discovery.
When you think of Florida, sandy beaches and palm trees might come to mind. But back during the Ice Age, it was a cold and frigid place and some divers just found incredible proof of that.
Henry Sadler, a middle school science teacher, discovered a gigantic humerus bone from a long-extinct mammoth while diving in the Peace River. Sadler showed off the find to Inside Edition from his classroom, where he plans to keep the bone as a teaching tool for his students.
Sadler was diving with fellow amateur paleontologist Derek Demeter.
Two men were scuba diving in Peace River, located in Arcadia, Florida, when they made one massive discovery. They found a gigantic bone belonging to a now-extinct Columbian mammoth.
Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler were searching for fossils in the river when they came upon the huge 4-foot-long, 50-pound leg bone. In fact, the discovery was completely unexpected as they had initially planned on diving for shark teeth in the Floridian city of Venice, but the wind was so strong that they instead went to Arcadia’s Peace River.
And it certainly worked out for them as the mammoth bone was their greatest ever discovery as Sadler described, “You know the wind kicked us out of Venice, so we went there and had one of the most epic days I have ever had.”
Florida divers find Columbian mammoth leg bone from Ice Age-era at the bottom of a river Howard Cohen, The Miami Herald
May 5 Florida beaches give up all sorts of, well, treasures.
Sometimes you find bales of drugs valued at over a million. (Not that you get to keep it.) A naval sea mine washed ashore along Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in April. And just a month prior, U.S. military target drone washed ashore on the beach at Ocean Ridge Hammock Park.
But what Derek Demeter, the director of Seminole State College s Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium, and his pal Henry Sadler, a Florida school teacher, discovered embedded in the sand while scuba diving Peace River in Arcadia on April 25, has been waiting to be found for a long time.
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