Illustrations of the different gomphothere genera, including Rhynchotherium (bottom left), whose remains were found in Florida. (Image credit: Pedro Toledo, CC BY) Researchers discovered the trove ...

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

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 ...

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 Get ...

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 ...

A giant gomphothere, a 10,000-pound, four-tusk relative of an elephant that roamed Florida before humans. (University of Florida) The discovery was made on a piece of private property about 45 ...

Photographs from TT-3. A. Combustion feature spatially associated with gomphothere cervical vertebrae and skull fragments (excavation unit C5); B. Sacral and caudal vertebrae, vertebral discs, and ...

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 ...