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A Florida Sink Hole Swallowed These Animals 500,000 Years AgoâNow Their Bones Reveal a Lost World

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Fossil hunters Robert Sinibaldi and Joseph Branin discovered 552 animal fossils while diving in the Steinhatchee River.

The fossils shed light on a little-known period of the Pleistocene ice ages called the middle Irvingtonian .

Horses, sloths, and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in what is now Florida and remained there until two men discovered their bones in 2022 .

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