Saturday, January 3, 2026

Question: What Florida site in Ruskin preserves evidence of Ice Age animals?

Answer: The Paleo Preserve

In 1983, scientific history was changed when the world’s greatest collection of Pleistocene fossils was uncovered at the Leisey Shell Pit in southern Hillsborough County. Volunteers organized by Tampa Bay paleontologist Frank Garcia worked with scientists to expose scores of fantastic creatures from prehistoric times, some of them unknown to science dating from one million years ago.