• Question: How many fossils have you discovered?

    Asked by anon-275023 to Will, Michael, Graham, Christopher, Alistair on 13 Jan 2021.
    • Photo: Graham Shields

      Graham Shields answered on 13 Jan 2021:


      I’m really bad at fossil hunting because I’m not patient enough but I have discovered some. I found the backbone of an ichthyosaur a few years back on the beach at Weymouth, a fossil shrimp in Germany, some really old trilobites and fossil seaweed in China and fossil plants in Wales, which I still have in my house as ornaments. The best place I have been to in the UK for fossil hunting was the Jurassic Coast in Dorset where there are lots of ammonites.

    • Photo: Michael Nolan

      Michael Nolan answered on 18 Jan 2021:


      professionally I have discovered approximately, around, in the ballpark of…ahem… 0 fossils.
      But I did find some while on holidays last year down the west coast of Ireland, which was very cool

    • Photo: Alistair Young

      Alistair Young answered on 4 Feb 2021:


      🙂 .. i don’t do fossil hunting, and have never come across one in the wild!

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