Scuba divers find HUGE Ice Age mammoth bone in Florida river
Updated: May 3 2021, 9:17 ET
SHOCKED scuba divers have found a huge 50 pound mammoth bone in a Florida river.
The two men were diving in the Peace River when they made the Ice Age discovery.
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Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler found the ancient bone which stands at four foot high.
Demeter, Seminole State Planetarium s director, told FOX 35 Orlando: Henry is my dive buddy. He yelled out to me, said, Hey, Derek. I found something! Oh my goodness! It was really, really cool.
The divers think the bone belonged to to a Columbian mammoth.
A pair of divers uncovered a giant mammoth femur on a scuba trip in Florida.
The four-foot leg bone was preserved in the sediment at the bottom of the Peace River, about 55 miles from Sarasota.
Roaming the area during the Pleistocene era, between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago, Columbian mammoths could reach 13 feet tall and weigh over 10 tons.
The divers, both amateur paleontologists, believe the femur is from a mammoth that died about 100,000 years ago.
Peace River is known for its many fossils: The pair also found a tooth belonging to a saber-tooth tiger on the same expedition.
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A pair of scuba divers in America found a massive mammoth bone in a river which they reckon is 100,000 years old.
Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler unearthed the 1.2 metre, 22 kilogram bone in the Peace River near Acadia, two hours south of Orlando. Henry is my dive buddy, Mr Demeter, a Planetarium director, told FOX 35 Orlando.
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The pair think the bone belonged to a mammoth and could be from the Ice Age, which was 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago.
Scuba Divers Find Rare Ice Age Mammoth Bone at Bottom of Florida River
On 5/3/21 at 3:29 PM EDT When you uncover this fossil and realize there were these giant, elephant-like creatures roaming around what was probably once a grassland in Florida, it gives you a sense of wonder for what it was like back in ancient times, Demeter, the director of Seminole State College s Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium, said. It s kind of like our way of time traveling. It makes your imagination go wild.
Henry Sadler and Derek Demeter dredged this mammoth bone up from the bottom of the Peace River in Arcadia, FL.