Florida: 6 Million Year old Elephant Graveyard Found - Global Science News

Recently. In June 2023, paleontologists from the Florida Museum of

Natural History unearthed a 6 million-year-old "elephant graveyard" in Alachua County, Florida.

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The site, known as the Montbrook Site, contains the remains of at least 8 gomphotheres, an extinct

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elephant-like species that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch.

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The gomphotheres at the Montbrook Site were all young adults or

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juveniles, and they appear to have died together in a single event.

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The cause of their deaths is unknown, but it is possible that

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they were killed by a natural disaster, such as a flood or a drought.

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