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The Tampa Bay Fossil Club is a family oriented organization focused on paleontology, archaeology, and the natural sciences in general. Meetings are held monthly at the University of South Florida and feature prominent speakers from many areas of science. The Tampa Bay Fossil Club awards two annual scholarships to University of South Florida students working in the field of paleontology and geology. The 20 year old club hosts numerous field trips and gatherings through the year. Florida emerged from the warm Atlantic Ocean about 30 million years ago, 35 million years after dinosaurs became extinct. For that reason, no one has ever found any dinosaur bones in our state. However, ancient mammals and sharks thrived here, including such unusual creatures as two-story tall giant ground sloths, VW-size armadillos, tiny three-toed horses, humpless camels, hornless rhinos, fierce saber-toothed cats, massive mammoths and sharks as large as a Greyhound bus.

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