50-Pound Ice-Age Mammoth Bone Found in River

Two Florida scuba divers uncovered a mammoth bone possibly dating back to the Ice Age while diving in a local river, according to reports.
Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler found the four-foot, 50-pound bone in the Peace River near Acadia last Sunday, calling it an "amazing" discovery.
"Henry is my dive buddy," Demeter, Seminole State Planetarium's director, told FOX 35 Orlando. "He yelled out to me, said, 'Hey, Derek. I found something!' Oh my goodness!' It was really, really cool."
The pair believe the bone belonged to a Columbian mammoth, which wandered around Florida between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago; however, the actual age is difficult to determine.
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