Scientists recently uncovered several Gomphothere remains dating back 12,000 years near Lake Tagua Tagua, a glacial finger lake, in southern Chile.

Archaeologists and volunteers excavate the gomphothere graveyard in northern Florida, covering the fossils in plaster casts to protect them. (Image credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace ...

The adult gomphothere skull (foreground, tusk capped in white plaster) was separated from the main body (background, covered in plaster) prior to its preservation. Kristen Grace/Florida Museum ...

An illustration of a gomphothere that would have looked similar to a fossilized skeleton discovered by University of Florida researchers at a site near Gainesville. Florida Museum image by Merald ...

In the meantime, they’ll continue working on preparing the gomphothere skeleton at the University of Florida lab for eventual exhibition at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Florida archaeologists recently discovered several complete skeletons of an extinct species of elephants called gomphothere, marking a historic find at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s ...

The teeth of a baby gomphothere. (Katherine Corcoran/WUFT News) In a ditch in Levy County, about 15 people are digging in the dirt. Five to 6 million years ago, the area was likely a river. Now ...

An illustration of a gomphothere that would have looked similar to a fossilized skeleton discovered by University of Florida researchers at a site near Gainesville. Florida Museum image by Merald ...

An illustration of a gomphothere that would have looked similar to a fossilized skeleton discovered by University of Florida researchers at a site near Gainesville. Florida Museum image by Merald ...