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Fossil-hunting diver makes stunning ancient find off Florida coast: ‘I plan on keeping it’
By Fox News,
25 days ago
A Florida man recently found a prehistoric jackpot while diving off the Sunshine State’s coast.
Lundberg, who studied marine biology at the University of South Florida, told Fox News Digital that he found an ancient mastodon tusk while scavenging for fossils off Manasota Key, which is around 90 miles south of Tampa.
He found the relic back in April.
The mastodon tusk, which has not been dated, could be millions of years old.
While the 29-year-old said he’s been scuba diving for 12 years, Lundberg has been a fossil hunter since he was “old enough to walk.”
“My dad would take us out to construction sites all the time to look for fossils as a kid,” Lundberg explained.
Lundberg, who studied marine biology at the University of South Florida, told Fox News Digital that he found an ancient mastodon tusk while scavenging for fossils off Manasota Key, which is around 90 miles south of Tampa. Alex Lundberg
“Although the mastodon has been around since [4 to 3 million years ago], mammoths didn’t arrive in North America until much later, during the Pleistocene ice ages,” the NPS’s website reads.
The Pleistocene epoch stretches from 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago.
“Mastodons did co-exist in many places with mammoths, but all of North America’s proboscideans went extinct by around 10,500 years ago,” the NPS added.
Lundberg advises that aspiring fossil hunters should remember to get a fossil permit, if they’re lucky enough to find a prehistoric object.
He said the state of Florida’s fossil permits only cost five dollars each.
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