The 19th century young adult novelist Kirk Munroe certainly knew about the mysterious Aucilla Sinks when he wrote “Wakulla” in 1885. He accurately described the unique area where the Aucilla River ...

Hernando DeSoto traversed the banks of the Aucilla River more than 400 years ago. Today, it is one of the few areas of Florida that still resembles the landscape that the famed explorer saw back then.

The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida river shows that humans settled the southeastern United States as much as 1,500 years earlier than scientists previously believed, ...

Archeaologist Neil Puckett swims with a mastodon bone he dug up from the bottom of the Aucilla River. Adam Burke Courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) Unlike almost any ...

The Aucilla flows along the east side of the Red Hills region between Thomasville and Tallahassee. Closer to the Gulf of Mexico, in Aucilla Wildlife Management Area, limestone bedrock rises close ...