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Fossil-hunting diver says he has found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida's coast
- Alex Lundberg found a 4-foot, 70-pound tusk measuring 25 feet deep near Venice, Florida, initially mistaking it for wood.
- Lundberg discovered the large tusk on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast in April, gradually realizing its significant size.
- Lundberg described the tusk's discovery process, stating, "it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I'm like, this is a big tusk.
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Fossil-hunting diver says he found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida’s coast
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — 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 large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
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Fossil-hunting diver says he has found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida's coast
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. But he says it turned out to be something far rarer: a large section of tusk from…
·New York, United States
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