A 16-year-old high school student recently bumped into the largest fossil find in Pinellas County, Florida in nearly 100 years. Sierra Sarti-Sweeney was taking photos in Boca Ciega Millennium Park when she "looked down and saw a huge bone that could not be a rock." She started digging, fearing the the enormous bones could be human, and eventually uncovered a 3-foot mammoth jaw and tooth weighing 65 pounds.
Subsequent digging has led to teeth and bones from a second mammoth, giant sloths, camels, turtles with 6-foot shells, sabor-toothed cats and armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles.
Sounds like someone has a future as a paleontologist.
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