Cafe Sci Orlando announcements for 2012-06: "Mastodons in Daytona!"

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Chad MILLER

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Topic, "Mastodons in Daytona"

Hi. This month we will have a fascinating discussion at our Cafe Sci at
7PM on Wednesday 6 June, at Taste, in College Park.

About 6 months ago, amateur paleontologists were sifting through dirt
and rubble at a Daytona construction site, and discovered bones and
teeth from a mastodon, an enormous tusked mammal that died more than 13
thousand years ago and weighed several tons.

Zach Zacharias is Senior Curator of both Education and History at
Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences. He will talk about these and other
mastodons, which lived during the Oligocene through Pleistocene
periods, and if we're very lucky, may even have mastodon bones for us
to hold.

Directions

Taste
717 W. Smith Street
Orlando, United States
32804

Taste is near the corner of Princeton Street (really Smith Street after
the fork) and Edgewater Drive, so about 2 minutes from I-4 to parking.
One can park on the street or in the parking lot behind Taste.
* From Downtown and south, drive north ("east") on I-4 through
downtown. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and turn
left/west.
* From Altamonte Springs and north, drive south ("west") on I-4
toward downtown Orlando. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and
turn right/west.

From I-4, drive a few blocks to Edgewater Drive. At the intersection,
you should see a orange building ahead of you, labeled "Taste". Park on
the street or behind Taste.
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