Fossils!!

I never lost my childhood obsession with dinosaurs.

One of my (ok I know it's funky) dreams is to have a full size t-rex skeleton replica in my house. You can buy them.. many museums use replicas vs actual skeletons.

They use replicas instead of real bones?? Now I feel cheated!

They mold the original bones and then make casts of them. That way more places can have them on display. Then the real bones are used for studying or just kept safe. Shoot, some dinosaur skeletons had bones broken to make them fit the way they thought they should be. It's a very interesting field. I got to do some fossil hunting out on Calvert Cliffs, but danged if I could find one of those awesome Megaladon teeth. That woulda been so cool. *sigh* I did find a crocodile tooth, so that was pretty neat. :D

Yeah, tigerlily is correct. Some museums DO use the originals, but some species are only known from one specimen. It's only fair to replicate it to allow more than one place to display it.. and study it.

I love to go to lake Michigan beach, because there are TONS of very cool fossils to find. Lots of shells, coral, plant stems, and misc animals that I don't really know what they are.

I have a fossil crocodile jaw too.. it has 5 teeth in it.

Did you find the crocodile jaw? Even if you didn't that's completely cool!! (can I have it :please: ) I have an aweseome book for midatlantic fossil hunting. Now I need to expand my horizon. So Lake Michigan huh? I would love to find some trilobites. Those little buggies are just cool for some reason. :D

No I didn't find the crocodile jaw.

I also have fossil fish.. those are cool.

Trilobites are my FAVORITES. Have you ever seen moroccan trilobites? *drool*

Check em out: http://www.trilobites.com/site/index...prod_id=3743&# http://www.trilobites.com/site/index...&prod_id=3948&

You should take a picture of that jaw. I would love to see it!

That is one awesome trilobite!! Too bad it's so outta my league. :tears: I would love to get a Smilodon skull and put it on the mantle. That would be cool, but the husband would rather have a moose. :rolleyes:

Pardon me.. it's an alligator.. and there are four teeth.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...8/sscn1026.JPG

Smilodon is very cool.

Thanks for the pic. Very cool! :clap: (I'm so easily amused! ;) )

I have a few fossils. Mostly coral, limpets, lots of shells and a few cool teeth. I also have a vertabrae of some marine mammal that my mother found. Maybe a dolphin, but I haven't had it id'ed yet.

One of my classes we had to collect a hundred specimens of one particular fossil and reconstruct the life. It was pretty cool. You can see on some shells where a snail has dissolved it and eaten the little critter right up. Plus the rings and such to determine age. Even the orientation while still in the substrate will give you clues as to wether it was alive or deceased at time of fossilization. Some really cool stuff. Good lord I need help, I can just go on and on.....blah blah blah ;)

Maybe we should start a fossil thread..? lol

I was thinking the same thing, maybe split this one off? We're bad thread hijackers!! :D

Ha, I did it!!! :D

Anybody else into fossils?

There has to be some other rock nerds here somewhere.

Um.. I have a cool megalodon tooth. (gigantic prehistoric shark) It's nothing like the biggest ones (around 6") mine's about 2" long.

Calling all fossil freaks! :nerd:

It sounds like you have an awesome collection there. I'm jealous. I've gotten to hold several of those 6" teeth does that count? :rolleyes:

One of my favorites is a trilobite that sticks out of the rock matrix so you can feel all the little bumps and ridges on it.

What's cool is I can go in my backyard and find shell fossils. I found one with the actual shell still unfossilized.. they were spiral shells embedded in the rock, and one was loose that you could screw out of the rock matrix.

Over the past 15 years I have been fortunate to work at a plant in florida located by a man made lake. These are a few of the fossils I have found,Megladon shark teeth as well as numerous other species,horse teeth, alligator teeth and misc. bones that i have no clue about.Anyway here are some pics for those of you who are interested!!


Fossilized Horse teeth
http://img13.imagevenue.com/loc13/th...orse_teeth.JPG

Alligator Teeth
http://img105.imagevenue.com/loc101/..._alligator.JPG

Shark Vertebrae & Misc bones
http://img120.imagevenue.com/loc59/t...misc_bones.JPG

Shark Teeth


http://img18.imagevenue.com/loc157/t...hark_teeth.JPG

Wow very nice. I wish I could find shark teeth.

Dang can't see those pics. For some reason my computer refuses to let me see those. (wah) Grrrrr...stupid ZoneAlarm!

Sounds like you have a great source there Rick. :clap:

Only the three of us? C'mon there have to been a few more out there.

Nope, you guys are wierdos! No one else likes you (okay, this only applies to Christie!!) J/K!! :P :D


Actually, I'm slightly jealous, I've never gotten to go to Calvert Cliffs with Christie on one of her expeditions. She's a fanatic! She even dragged her kids there on a VERY rainy day just to prowl the beaches and cliffs! HARDCORE CHRISTIE!!!

i went through a fossil stage when I was a kid....ha ha...like every ten minutes...

'hey mom, do you think this is a fossil?"

'No Daniel, that is just a rock"

....then it was back to the gravel driveway in search of some other 'fossils'...

I think I found a few odd impressions here and there...nothing spectacular.

Also, I was a shark freak when I was a kid. Anything you wanted to know about sharks...I knew it. I met Rodney Fox once...that was pretty cool. I also had a few smaller shark teeth fossils...but that was about it for me :D

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Originally Posted by wendyhoo9

Nope, you guys are wierdos! No one else likes you (okay, this only applies to Christie!!) J/K!! :P :D


Actually, I'm slightly jealous, I've never gotten to go to Calvert Cliffs with Christie on one of her expeditions. She's a fanatic! She even dragged her kids there on a VERY rainy day just to prowl the beaches and cliffs! HARDCORE CHRISTIE!!!

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Hey now it was only a light rain, and I huddle them under an umbrella. I only get back to MD a couple times a year and I hadn't been in so long! :oops: Now I'll never take you, since you made fun of me. :devilish: SO THERE! :neener:

Hm.. I collect what you could call "future" fossils :)
Meaning, skulls. I have a cow skull (who doesn't?), a fox skull with full dentition; a squirrel and several other small native mammals; and the oddest, a horned frog skull. I got it when one of my pet horned frogs, died due to "red leg" (which he had before I got him.)




http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/3979beansku.jpg

Fossils... LOL and I thought you were all gonna make fun of us older members and staff.. till I read the thread. :P



I to have fossils/eventual fossils (not old ppl) that I have kept over the years. When I was 14 my Mom sent me to survival camp, so I have a fox skull, a havelina (eaten by myself and several other kids in camp, I even did the slaughtering) will save that story for another time.... a mt lion skull... oh and a cow skull I found at my uncles farm (he owns milk cattle).

I have a steer skull.. and a bird skull, a few rodent skulls, and a box turtle shell with the spine still attached.

I love sharks too, Daniel. My fave is the thresher shark.

how about those living fossils like the tortise and the tauratura and the shark u know things that havent adapted pretty much at all