I am new to the fossil world. I found this yesterday while metal detecting a Florida Treasure Coast beach. I appreciate any knowledge and/or opinions. Thank you
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You have a piece of fossilized bone. Petrified bone is quite common along Florida beaches, and looks exactly like that. The many holes in the second picture are the pores in the bone.
Your bone likely dates to the Miocene era (about 20 million years old). There isn't enough left to tell what species it came from, but it could have originated from a wide range of animals from that time period, ranging from deer, to whales, to extinct tapirs.