I decided to ask some questions. Everyone I talked to said the same thing: gators are afraid of people. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Of course, everyone I spoke to was also drunk. But Mike and I put the gator out of our minds and joined the crowd. We scooped gravel into our screens and sifted all kinds of fossils from the Peace River. In time, we were chest deep in the river in search of better fossils. We found lots of small shark teeth, turtle shell fragments, a three-toed horse tooth and more.