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St. Petersburg teachers make ‘rare’ Ice Age fossil discovery

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Teachers Rick Cochrane and Henry Sadler discovered jaw bone and tusks. Mastodons once inhabited North and Central America until their extinction. Pair have donated fossils to the Florida Museum of Natural History in the past. They display Mammoth mandible and massive Mammoth leg bone in classrooms.

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St. Petersburg teachers make ‘rare’ Ice Age fossil discovery

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Two St. Petersburg teachers are credited for the discovery of "rare Ice Age fossils" they uncovered while diving in local waters, according to a media release from the Admiral Farragut Academy. Teachers Rick Cochrane and Henry Sadler were "thrilled" to discover a jaw bone and tusks from Mastodons that once inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene periods until their extinction abo…

1 year ago·Tampa, United States

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