St. Petersburg Times 340k.jpg Postal workers who deliver Jim and Susan Pendergraft's daily mail must wonder, judging from their patio, what the inside of their house looks like.
Fossils are everywhere, as patio decorations and lawn ornaments.
The word Fossils is even painted on their mailbox. Inside, the Pendergrafts have so many prehistoric bones, it's a wonder they don't hear the distant roars and snorts of saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths or ancient tapirs in their sleep. They have antelope horns hanging on walls, thousands of shark teeth collected in boxes, mastodon molars filed and stacked on the floor in 24-pack cardboard flats. It isn't unusual to see the jaws of bear-sized rodents and prehistoric horses placed on bookshelves and chronologically arranged in museum display cases. In fact, Jim and Susan Pendergraft, amateur paleontologists, have more fossils than furniture in their Largo home.