Fossil hunter Alex Lundberg stated that they first encountered the roughly 1.2 meter lengthy tooth once they dived in April.
Explaining that he and his good friend went to the world once more and began cleansing the sand the place the tooth was, Lundberg stated, “The fossil began to get larger and larger. I keep in mind saying to myself, 'This can be a actually large tooth.'”
Lundberg acknowledged that they unearthed the fossil from a depth of 25 meters off the coast of Venice, Florida.
The diver stated that he positioned the fossil, weighing roughly 31 kilograms, in a glass field in the lounge of his residence.
Lundberg acknowledged that officers from the Florida Museum of Pure Historical past will come and look at the fossil, and solely then can or not it’s understood how previous the tooth is.
Then again, Rachel Narducci, one of many museum officers, additionally stated that typically, after examination, the fossil is allowed to stay with the one that finds it.
“Very cool piece”
The diver, who studied biology on the College of South Florida, acknowledged that he wished to maintain the fossil in his residence and stated, “You don't know precisely the place it got here from. It has been rolling round within the ocean for hundreds of thousands of years. This can be a very cool piece.” In accordance with the knowledge shared by the museum, the diver has had a fossil exploration allow since 2019.
Mastodons, often known as historical kinfolk of recent elephants, appeared between 27 and 30 million years in the past and have become extinct about 10 thousand years in the past.
Mastodons, which lived in forests world wide, particularly in North and Central America, reached 2.5 to three meters in size and weighed 5.4 tons.
