Science & Wellness

Searching for red pandas in an elephant graveyard

Thousands of fossils have been unearthed at the Florida Museum’s new dig site in Levy County. Elephant-like tusks. A toe bone of an ancient condor. Even a snapping turtle with a smaller turtle coming out of its nose. But one of the animals museum paleontologists hope to find remains elusive—the red panda.

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Stephenie Livingston Author
Michael McAleer Photography
January 30, 2017