Exploring north Florida rivers for ice age tusks

This video takes viewers on location to the Aucilla River in northwest Florida where Museum scientists search underwater for mammoth and mastodon fossils as well as other artifacts. Back in the Museum lab, scientists demonstrate and explain the process of making specimen casts. The segment is part of the Museum's Emmy Award-winning half-hour film, "Expedition Florida: From Exploration to Exhibition." The film plays in the Extinction Gallery of the Museum's "Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land" permanent exhibition.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• paleontology
• aucilla river
• aucilla
• river
• excavation
• underwater
• diving
• ice age
• tusks
• mammoth
• mastodon
• fossils
• lithic points
• points
• ivory
• bones
• specimen
• cast
• expedition florida
• exploration
• exhibition
• flmnh
• florida

[jasondavis1983]

i envy y'all so so much i am 28 and got to dive for 15 yrs in stenihatchee be for the F.W.C stop me and told me i was no longer aloud to dive in FL any more it has put me it to a depression in FL i fond some awesome fossil and never used any tools when diving only my hands and lights when needed i loved doing that more than anything in the world i hand a very big collection you name it and i had it and when i was 15 i swear i would never ever sale any thing then last yr lost my job and sold it.