RE: Spring, second of two

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• Subject: RE: [CHAT] Spring, second of two
• From: &* &* <j*@prairieinet.net>
• Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:04:35 -0600
• In-reply-to: <0837D152-6C98-11D8-9E05-000A95B94698@igc.org>

You got to be kidding..... a mastodon? What a find! So have you con your
way into getting one for the garden display?!? LOL!

Donna

> 
> The guy who details the nursery's trucks lives on the Myakka river.
> Right on the river; he and his family were flooded out of home for 2
> weeks during the last wet season. But the river is low this time of
> year, and Saturday he decided to take himself upstream and do some
> snorkeling--looking for sharks teeth and such. The rivers of southwest
> Florida are fossil-rich.
> 
> What he found is eye-popping. He found three leg bones and several
> vertebrae of what would appear to be a mastodon. He brought one of the
> leg bones to the nursery today to show it to me. This fossil is about
3
> feet long; at one end [which I take to be the top] is a double ball
> joint in very good condition. The other end looks like it has been
> eroded away. The shank of the bone is at least 5 inches in diameter. A
> very large bone.
> 
> He has a friend who is a paleontologist. He's sending one of the leg
> bones to the paleontologist for a better Ident. He said "You can't
> believe the adrenalin surge after I found the first leg bone. I put
the
> skiff under one arm and the bone under the other and walked on top of
> the river all the way home!"
> 
> 
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> Zone 10

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