What You Need To Know. The Peace River is ideal for finding fossils; Fred Mazza is a tour guide that helps clients find the good stuff; He's been in love with natural history since the age of 5 ...

“I was always fossil hunting as a kid,” said Searle. “About 20 years ago I stopped into a fossil show at Fossil Fest in Tampa. The Peace River is the best place for fossil hunters in Florida.” ...

Be sure to pack your macaroni strainer when you set out for a day of canoeing on the Peace River. Here, it's not just the live oak trees and hawks that are the attraction — it's the camel teeth! Yes, ...

ARCADIA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Peace River runs through Southwest Florida and stretches 106 miles. The river runs through Arcadia and has become known as one of the best places in the entire country ...

Florida is one of the best places in the nation for amateur fossil hunting. The fossils in Florida are likely to be in the sand of streams and rivers such as the Peace River in Central Florida ...

But it’s a prime place for fossils of aquatic creatures. The Peace River, for one, is “really loaded” with shark teeth, Mazza adds, from tiger, bull, lemon, gray and snaggletooth sharks to ...

Kayak along the Peace River to look for shark teeth—as well as bone and tooth fragments from prehistoric mammoths, mastodons, horses, and saber-toothed cats—on a guided Fossil Expeditions tour.

Not only is the “Shark Bite Capital of the World” in Florida, but so is the “Shark Tooth Capital of the World.” See guide to spotting shark teeth ...

The Charlotte Harbor area, and the Peace River in particular, are happy hunting grounds for fossil seekers, she says. Former phosphate mines also are rich in fossils, but require getting ...

Below the surface, the river bed was streaked with white limestone. Upstream, downstream If you're a beginner, go ahead and call Canoe OutPost (800-268-0083) or Canoe Safari (863-494-7865) in Arcadia.

Renz, 52, was a newspaper reporter in his 30s when he caught the fossil-hunting bug. He and his brother had gone fishing on the Caloosahatchee River, near Fort Myers.