Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a ...
Florida fossils are often very well preserved. [1] The oldest known fossils in Florida date back to the Eocene. At this time Florida was covered in a sea home to a variety of marine invertebrates and the primitive whales, such as Basilosaurus. During the later Miocene Florida was exposed as dry land again due to geologic uplift and mountain ...
Starting in late 1913, vertebrate fossils were uncovered during the construction of a drainage canal from the Indian River between Vero and Gifford. Samples of the fossils were sent by Isaac M. Weills and Frank Ayers to the state geologist of Florida, E. H. Sellards, who recognized the finds as Pleistocene animals. In 1915, 26 fossilized human ...
This list of the prehistoric life of Florida contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Florida. Precambrian [ edit ]
Found around the world in tropical climates, big African pompano catches have surged in recent years in the Gulf, and angler Dave Miller might have led one of his friends to a recent world record.
In June, a fossil diver found a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Archaeologists at an Iowa creek bed where a 13,600 mastodon skull was found ...
The Cutler Fossil Site is located in a sinkhole on the Miami Rock Ridge, a karstitic limestone formation running near the coast in Miami-Dade County. The ridge at the site is approximately 5 metres (16 ft) above the current sea level, and less than a kilometer from Biscayne Bay.
Invertebrate fossils from the Tampa Member were first collected in 1842 by Timothy Abbott Conrad. The fossil beds of the Tampa Member have since been studied by William Healey Dall, Gilbert Dennison Harris, and Angelo Heilprin, as well as others. The Fauna represented by the fossils is primarily marine, but including some land snails.