• 'Dad, look what I found!' How girl, 5, dug up rare 160m-year-old fossil with spade
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Imagine if she had found gold or diamonds instead
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;32317504]"IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!" [/QUOTE] "SO DO YOU!" *throws you over the side of the boat
The biggest fossil i've ever found was the back part of a belemnite shell (about 4-5cm long), which then magically vanished after I put it in my pocket. FUUU- Anyway, my mind would be blown if I found a fossil like that as a kid
Wow she actually found buried treasure.
I would not be the least bit surprised if she grew up to be an archaeologist.
She has bragging rights in spades now.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;32317784]I pretended I was a prospector and mined the shit out of different sandpits. Occasionally I found hardened, yellowish chunks of sand which I dubbed "Gold". I was so happy for finding it :D Only years later did I think back about those days and finally realize I dug up hardened chunks of cat piss-encrusted sand.[/QUOTE] I'm from Arizona, I WAS a prospector when I was little.
Utah is a great place for Trilobites. If you are unfamiliar with Trilobites, imagine large, hard-shelled sea cockroaches :v:
It says she found it at a water park. So it does it not belong to the water park? Do they allow people to keep whatever they find there? Because if you 'find' something on my property, that shiat's mine dude. Unless you dig up some cat poop, in which case you're welcome to it.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;32317784]I pretended I was a prospector and mined the shit out of different sandpits. Occasionally I found hardened, yellowish chunks of sand which I dubbed "Gold". I was so happy for finding it :D Only years later did I think back about those days and finally realize I dug up hardened chunks of cat piss-encrusted sand.[/QUOTE] Different type of gold.
I used to think my backyard was full of precious stones that I would collect. Turns out I was just ruining the cosmetic waterfall next to our pond.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;32325948]It says she found it at a water park. So it does it not belong to the water park? Do they allow people to keep whatever they find there? Because if you 'find' something on my property, that shiat's mine dude. Unless you dig up some cat poop, in which case you're welcome to it.[/QUOTE] Cotswold Water Park has over 140 lakes, I don't really think that's privately owned.
I used to break open rocks looking for agates or fossils. The only thing I ever found was some petrified wood and Petoskey stones, but I didn't have to break anything to find them :v:.
[img]http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/ani138.gif[/img] Yes?
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32319859]I used to think quartz was ivory and hoarded it obsessively. Never understood why they had to kill elephants to get the stuff[/QUOTE] I remember when me and a bunch of people from my grade dug under this tree in the schoolyard and found tons of quartz. We though we were the Kings of the Schoolyard.
[QUOTE=Artyom;32319367]so how the fuck do you know it was a mammoth bone now?[/QUOTE] I looked around wikipedia when i accidentaly foud a article about mammoths. Recodnized the bone.
ah I see, I believe you
Fossils are such easy pets. All they need is a bit of polish and a stool.
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