Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida. Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had met with a similar fate. Researchers and volunteers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have unearthed their fossils.