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...them long extinct. All date back to the late Miocene epoch, about 9 million years ago. Among the finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs -and the Carcharodon megalodon, a relative of the great white shark. As Ron Love puts it, "They had one hell of a zoo here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Florida: a Beastly Place | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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