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\n ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf. They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.\u201cWe kind of knew there could be one in the area,\u201d Lundberg said in an interview, noting that as he kept fanning away sand from the tusk he found in April \u201cit just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I\u2019m like, this is a big tusk.\u201dThe tusk measures about 4 feet (1.2 meters) and weighs 70 pounds (31 kilograms), Lundberg said, and was found at a depth of about 25 feet (7.6 meters) near Venice, Florida. It\u2019s currently sitting in a glass case in his living room, but the story may not end there.<\/p>\n
Mastodons are related to mammoths and current-day elephants. Scientists say they lived mainly in what is now North America, appearing as far back as 23 million years ago. They became extinct about 10,000 years ago, along with dozens of other large mammals that disappeared when Earth\u2019s climate was rapidly changing \u2014 and Stone Age humans were on the hunt.<\/p>\n
Remains of mastodons are frequently found across the continent, with Indiana legislators voting a couple years ago to designate the mastodon as its official state fossil. Mastodons are on exhibit at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, one of the most significant locations in the world for fossils of the bygone era.<\/p>\n
The age of the tusk Lundberg found has not yet been determined.Under Florida law, fossils of vertebrates found on state lands, which include near-shore waters, belong to the state under authority of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Lundberg has a permit to collect such fossils and must report the tusk find to the museum when his permit is renewed in December. He\u2019s had that permit since 2019, according to the museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe museum will review the discoveries and localities to determine their significance and the permit holder can keep the fossils if the museum does not request them within 60 days of reporting,\u201d said Rachel Narducci, collections manager at the museum\u2019s Division of Vertebrate Paleontology. \u201cThis may be a significant find depending on exactly where it was collected.\u201dLundberg, who has a marine biology degree from the University of South Florida and now works at a prominent Tampa cancer center, is optimistic he\u2019ll be able to keep the tusk. \u201cYou don\u2019t know where it came from. It\u2019s been rolling around in the ocean for millions of years. It\u2019s more of a cool piece,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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