Not a souvenir shop. The Dinosaur Store near Cocoa Beach houses one of the world's largest collections of real fossils and minerals. A genuinely surprising find on the Space Coast.
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The name sounds like a kitschy roadside souvenir stand with plastic dinosaurs and rubber snakes. It is not. The Dinosaur Store near Cocoa Beach houses one of the largest collections of real fossils and minerals available to the public anywhere in the world. This is a legitimate paleontology resource that happens to be open for retail.
The store carries genuine fossils from across geologic time — dinosaur bones and teeth, shark teeth, marine fossils, plant fossils, and an extensive mineral collection. Most items are for sale. The quality and variety of the collection is something you would expect from a natural history museum gift shop but at significantly larger scale with more accessible pricing.
Kids who are into dinosaurs will lose their minds. Adults who thought they were just browsing will spend two hours. Serious collectors make pilgrimages from across the country. It's one of those places that reveals itself to be much more interesting than its name suggests once you walk through the door.
Verify current hours before visiting as they can vary seasonally. Budget more time than you expect — the collection is extensive and there is a lot to look at even if you're not planning to buy anything. Items range from a few dollars for small shark teeth to several thousand dollars for significant specimens.
Florida has one of the richest fossil records in North America due to its geological history as a shallow sea bed. Shark teeth wash up on Florida beaches regularly. The Dinosaur Store contextualizes that — you can walk the beach afterward and look at the sand very differently knowing what used to live in the water above it.
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