Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 11:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres—extinct relatives of elephants—died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had met with a similar fate.