Researches Carried Out An 'Emergency Fossil Excavation' (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Researches Carried Out An 'Emergency Fossil Excavation'

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Researchers packed the shoreline with sandbags as they worked to quickly excavate the sea cow's skeleton from dense rock. Within a week, the Panama Canal flooded the site.

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Florida Museum photo by Aaron Wood

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