Fossil hunting !!

[guille24]

I took my 10 year old brother to do some fossil hunting and we found some chrinoids, brachiopods, and coral fossils !!

 

[wellington]

Wow, those are really cool. I love the last one the best. I love that kind of stuff. I never know what they are, but I love finding fossils, shells, even different looking stones and rocks.

 

[guille24]

I'm trying to get my little brother into science and stuff like that Lol , I do too I like to look for rocks and minerals and every once in a while we find fossils, there are lot of them here in Wisconsin

 

[tortadise]

Awesome. Down here in Texas we have loads of trilobites. We have a huge limestone flat bottom creek on our property. I dug one up and kept it in its boulder and used it for yard art. Its about 900+ pounds, and quite large. Cool thing your doing for your brother their too.

 

[wellington]

Do you ever get the Petosky stones over there? I love finding them. Usually easily found in upper Michigan, but once in a while you can find an odd one out of place. At fifty one, I will still sit in the water and sift through the stones to find a good one. Used to bring buckets full home for my pond. I will never grow up LOL. When on vaca, I love walking the ocean beaches for shells too. Never have walked the beaches of Lake Michigan over here in Illinois. I have in Michgian, where I am originally from. I used to always go to the rock shows. Loved some of the things they could do with them. Just polishing them fascinated me LOL

 

[guille24]

Woow that's really cool !!! Do u have any pics of it ??!! I wish one day I can find a trilobite is one of my favorite animals from the past

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Yes I found one about a week ago they are really cool !

 

[Leopard Tortoise Lover 16199]

Those are really cool!!
Sometimes I find fossils at the beach. What is the little coil cylinder in the 3rd pic called? I find those all the time!

 

[guille24]

I do the same thing I collect rocks and always try to find fossils , there are some really good spots by the Kenosha area and the quarry lake park in Racine wi , they are definitely worth to check them out

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Those on the 3rd pic are calle chrinoid steams ,

 

[wellington]

Awesome. Down here in Texas we have loads of trilobites. We have a huge limestone flat bottom creek on our property. I dug one up and kept it in its boulder and used it for yard art. Its about 900+ pounds, and quite large. Cool thing your doing for your brother their too.

Kelly, please post a pic. We would love to see it

 

[jeffstort]

That was my favorite pass time as a kid

 

[zman7590]

nice !!!

 

[guille24]

Thank you

 

[tortadise]

I will take a pictures today. Lots of Nautilus shells too.

 

[Leopard Tortoise Lover 16199]

A nautilus!! That's one of those ancient dinosaur-snail-squid things!!

 

[jaizei]

One of the 'secret' attractions of Central Texas.


http://texasamateurgeologist.com/2012/12/26/dinosaur-tracks-in-the-san-gabriel-river-near-leander/
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwF7p_TS1W0[/video]

 

[wellington]

That is really fascinating Jaizei. Thanks for posting it.

 

[lokenica]

Totally awesome! As a Life Science teacher, this is really cool. Is there a place open to the public near Georgia where you can actually dig/collect fossils, especially trilobites and keep them?

 

[zman7590]

i find lots of agates on superior coast by duluth in mn. funn

 

[guille24]

Woow that's really cool !! I never found one , do you have any pics???

 

[zman7590]

i do but i willneed to search haha there hidden in a bunch of pix. will post when i find