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Hi all, I’m pretty inexperienced and have been starting by going sharks tooth hunting around Venice Beach, FL as it is very accessible for me and always a guaranteed find of at least a few teeth! This is my third or fourth time and we decided to take a whole bucket to sift through on dry ground in good light, and starting setting aside anything that looked interesting in addition to teeth and ray spine fragments. When we found this piece, we all agreed (with no real knowledge to back this up however) that it looked manmade and too unnatural to not be a tool of some sort. As far as texture/material, it appears very similar to the bone/teeth fossils commonly found at Casperson Beach. Any help with identification? It would be greatly appreciated thanks!

My yearly trip to Florida to visit family and friends was just what I needed. Luckily during our visit, we missed Minnesota's most serious cold snap of the year. As always, I get over to the Peace River area and had a great time with @Shellseeker. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to visit @jcbshark as he is in the process of moving but missed seeing him anyways. Jack and I were very successful, after a LONG hike, at finding a secluded spot to sift on a tributary of the Peace River and it gave up some nice treasures. My free time was also spent looking for fossils in and around Sarasota/Bradenton developments. It also was productive. Finally, we spent quite a bit of time at Caspersen Beach. While my wife sunned herself and read a book, I looked for shark teeth. Usually, I present my trip in a few posts. This year, it will be a random mix of fossils in no particular order. Hope you enjoy the pictures. I have to start a picture show of Florida with palm trees!!! Caspersen Beach at sunset: Tortoises roam the sand of Caspersen beach. Similar to looking at ant mounts out west for fossils, look at piles of sand excavated by the tortoises at Caspersen Beach Snowy Egret. A favorite bird of Florida for me. Somehow the picture is not coming through clearly.

I'm looking to go fossil hunting or shark tooth hunting with a friend coming down from NY March 1st, 2nd, & 3rd. My plan was to go to Casperson Beach, Nokomis Beach (Casey Key) and Big stump Pass state park beach because I've had luck finding small shark teeth there. I wonder if we could manage to do something on the Peace River without a guide though! Or do you recommend a guide? I've always wanted to go there but never knew how or where to start. I do have the floating metal skimming tool, some shovels and beach shell scoopers already. Any ideas appreciated! Cassidy