By Eliot Kleinberg - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer PALM BEACH — No one has seen a Caribbean monk seal for six decades, and nobody’s sighted one in Florida in nearly a century. Now archaeologists say they have found a prehistoric tooth from the extinct animal along the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach. They say it’s the first evidence ever that the seal lived in what’s now Palm Beach County. Caribbean Monk Seal tooth found in Palm Beach Archaeologists from the Broward County-based Archaeological and Historical Conservancy found the tooth this past month, executive director Robert S. Carr told the Palm Beach Post this past week from Davie. He said it’s 500 to 1,000 years old. “We didn’t do carbon dating, but (set its age) just based on the materials around it,” Carr said. He said his group is “99.9 percent sure” it’s from one of the long-gone seals; “the tooth is “very distinctive.” Carr also said i...
