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Kiley Price

Nearly 6 million-year-old 'elephant graveyard' unearthed in Florida

We see six people in a rocky area with excavated fossils on the ground and covered in plaster blocks.

An ancient "elephant graveyard" chock-full of massive bones has been unearthed along what was once a prehistoric river in northern Florida. 

The fossils of these long-extinct beasts belong to gomphotheres — a relative of modern elephants — and date to about 5.5 million years ago, during the Miocene epoch. 

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