The Stetson University Gillespie Museum’s November Science Saturday will focus on Florida Fossils. On Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., young scientists are invited to join fossil collector and educator John Catiller in a morning of digging and exploring this state’s geologic past.

“Florida is a fossil-hunter’s paradise,” explains Catiller. Fossils present in the exposed rocks in our state range from 45 million-year-old “sand dollars” to bones and teeth from “Ice Age” mammals, which lived in Florida just 10,000 years ago. Much of Florida’s bedrock, which is largely limestone, is comprised of the shells of animals that lived in the shallow seas once covering our state. Fossil seashells abound in the banks of both panhandle and southern Florida rivers.

This event is free and open to the public. The Gillespie Museum is located on the southeast corner of Stetson’s DeLand campus, at 234 East Michigan Ave. For more information, contact the Museum at 386.822.7330 or visit www2.stetson.edu/gillespie.