Divers Uncover Hundreds Of 500,000-Year-Old Fossils In An Underwater Sinkhole In Florida
The sinkhole held the remains of animals like early horses, sloths, giant armadillos, and possibly even a new species of tapir. Dorothy Finley / FlickrFlorida ’s Steinhatchee River , where 552 prehistorical fossil were pull from an subaqueous sink . Around 500,000 old age ago , a sinkhole opened in Florida ’s Big Bend region . Hundreds of brute met their deaths in its depths , and their cadaver were finally entombed in deposit ....