5/27/23 Report - Florida Fossil Graveyard. Fort Pierce Shark Attack. Use of Ultraviolet Light. Marine Forecast Data.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Source: MSN.com link below.

North Florida museum of Natural History made a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery when they found an elephant graveyard of an extinct relative of elephants called gomphotheres...

According to Rachel Narducci, collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum, it’s likely the fossils were successively deposited or transported to the area. “Modern elephants travel in herds and can be very protective of their young, but I don’t think this was a situation in which they all died at once,” she said. “It seems like members of one or multiple herds got stuck in this one spot at different times.”

Over the last seven years, paleontologists working at Montbrook have discovered the oldest deer in North America, the oldest known skull of a smilodontine sabertoothed cat and a new species of extinct heron. Fossil mainstays from the time, like bone crushing dogs and short-faced bears, also show up scattered across the wide-brimmed fossil bed. Despite the diversity of fossils at Montbrook, most of these animals were interred after being transported by running water, and their remains are rarely found intact. The discovery of several complete gomphotheres was entirely unexpected.

Here is the link for more about that.

'Once-in-a-lifetime': 5 million-year-old 'elephant graveyard' found in Florida (msn.com)

I've posted numerous Treasure Coast beach fossil finds in the past including those of mammoths,  sloths, tapirs, etc.  Here is an example of one post featuring a variety of such fossils.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 6/12/20 Report - Miscellaneous Sampling of Treasure Coast Fossils: Some Being Millions of Years Old. Evolution of Horses of North America. Labeling Finds.

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A thirteen-year-old Fort Pierce girl was bitten on her arms, legs and stomach by a shark while recently swimming off Fort Pierce.

Here is that link.

Florida girl, 13, fought back against a shark after being bitten on her arms, legs and stomach (nbcnews.com)

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Source: See FoxNews link below.

Ultraviolet light reveals to scientists a hidden Bible passage 1,500 years later.

Kessel shared that he used ultraviolet photography to see the earlier text under three layers of words written on a palimpsest, an ancient manuscript previously written on that people have scraped off and reused multiple times...

Here is that link.

Ultraviolet light reveals to scientists a hidden Bible passage 1,500 years later | Fox New

I've talked a lot in the past about the use of ultraviolet light to help find or identify things such as gem stones, fossil sea shells, depression glass, vasoline glass and more.

Here is one example.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/11/17 Report - Photographs For Viewing Coins and Artifacts. Looking For Lost Items: A Reminder.

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So they found what they kept calling a coin on Oak Island.  I couldn't see why they thought it was a coin.  I saw nothing to make me believe it was a coin, although I was only seeing it on the TV screen.   I mentioned my doubts in my 2/23/23 post (Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond). : 2/23/23 Report - 15th Century Gold Coin Found. Civil War Explosive Dug Up. Exercising Powers of Discernment. (tbr2020.blogspot.com)   So the last I saw, they were in Italy and some "expert," I guess it was, suggested it was a coin weight.  I doubt that too.  I just caught a little of that and think that is what he was saying.  Sometimes I have a hard time telling when they simply don't know or when they are trying to add to the drama of the show by misinterpreting finds.  

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I'm having a hard time finding a good replacement for the old MagicSeaWeed charts.  I'd think it would be easier, but everything I see is either too complicated or doesn't provide the information I want.  I'm sure I'll come up with something good before long, but still looking.  

I do plan on doing some posts to help explain some of the more complicated charts such as the following from the National Weather Service.

Good information there, but it isn't easy to get at a glance unless you have studied it.  Bigger waves are shown on 5/27.  

Significant Wave Height, as shown by the top chart, is defined traditionally as the mean wave height of the highest third of the waves. That is at the buoy. This will take some study.  These charts don't seem to translate to beach conditions as directly and easily as the MSW charts that I used for so long. Maybe it will just take some time to get used to these new charts and correlate them to actual observed beach conditions.

This buoy is off Pepper Park (41114).

Good hunting,

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