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SEMINOLE – A 16-year-old high school student has discovered what archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sierra Sarti-Sweeney was practicing nature photography in a heavily wooded area of Boca Ciega Millennium Park in Seminole last month when a shiny black rock caught her eye.<\/p>\n

She took it home to show it to her 22-year-old brother, Sean, a geology student at the University of South Florida. After some Internet research, the siblings came to two conclusions: The football-sized rock was actually the tooth of a long-extinct mammoth, and they were in over their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEMINOLE – A 16-year-old high school student has discovered what archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century. 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