Fossil artifacts on display at Nature Fest

Excerpts from the Newspaper:

The general public will get a chance to view recent fossil artifacts discovered at Boca Ciega Millennium Park during the fourth annual Discovery Day and Nature Festival Saturday, March 3.

The first fossil artifact was discovered at the park in early February by Seminole High School student Sierra Sarti-Sweeney of North Redington Beach, who was photographing nature when she noticed an object sticking up out of a creek bed.

It was later identified as the tooth and a portion of a jaw from a Columbian mammoth, an extinct species of elephant that inhabited North America between 9,000 and 100,000 years ago.

Over the last three weekends, volunteers have discovered a number of other artifacts...Artifacts have been identified from a horse, camel, giant tortoise, bison, glyptodont (a giant armadillo-like creature), jaguar, sea turtle and a white-tail deer.