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Rare discovery: Fully intact mammoth jaw found in Florida’s gator-infested waters
WSVN TV-7 ^
| NOVEMBER 17, 2023
| BY CAROLINA BORGES
Posted on 11/21/2023 5:18:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Fort Myers, Fla. (WSVN) — A fossil enthusiast near Fort Myers stumbled upon an extraordinary find, unearthing a fully intact mammoth jaw believed to be around 10,000 years old from the waters teeming with alligators.
John Kreatsoulas, the fossil finder from Fossil Junkies Dig and Dive Charters, expressed his amazement.
“I grabbed onto it just to hold on for a second and I realized ‘Wait a second, that’s not a tree, that was a mammoth,'” he said.
The remarkable discovery was made in an area known for its alligator presence.
Currently working to restore the ancient jaw, Kreatsoulas plans to register it with the state. If state officials decline, he said he would proudly display it in his home.
TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fortmeyers; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; paleontology
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To: Joe Brower
Really, really old Florida Ping!........................
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:19:08 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Darwin obviously ended mammoths for trotting around in an alligator swamp.Even back then it was a bad idea.
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:23:52 AM PST
by
Candor7
(He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
To: Red Badger
We tend to see pics of mammoths in cold and ice climates.
But this is Florida...
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:24:38 AM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
To: Red Badger
I have a Mammoth tooth. It’s on the shelf in our den. My Dad was a Geology major and brought it home from a dig.
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:26:19 AM PST
by
Apple Pan Dowdy
(... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
To: Candor7
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:26:29 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:26:38 AM PST
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: Blueflag
Climate changed. It got warmer...................
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:27:00 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
from Fossil Junkies Dig and Dive Charters... Hmmmm... something tells me 'follow the money'.
May be true, may not be true.
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:28:12 AM PST
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:28:46 AM PST
by
Candor7
(He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:28:59 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Red Badger
I got your woolly mammoth right here....
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:32:10 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Blueflag
“We tend to see pics of mammoths in cold and ice climates.
But this is Florida...”
Mammoths gotta eat and ice has no nutritional value.
To: Red Badger
A fossil enthusiast...
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:33:54 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: Blueflag
Even a mammoth needs a bit of vacation time.
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:37:45 AM PST
by
ANKE69
To: Candor7
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posted on
11/21/2023 5:40:50 AM PST
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
To: Red Badger
If this is only 10,000 yo, it’d be among the last Mammoths in North America, which makes sense, as Florida (which was much larger due to lower sea levels) was only then foresting, as well as being one of the last places to be reached by Clovis and/or Folsom paleoindians.
Here for article on Florida prehistory: https://www.nbbd.com/npr/archaeology-iras/floridaspast.html
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posted on
11/21/2023 6:18:11 AM PST
by
nicollo
("This is FR!")
To: SunkenCiv
Mammoth Ping!...................
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posted on
11/21/2023 6:21:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/21/2023 6:29:43 AM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/21/2023 6:38:30 AM PST
by
BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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