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.
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
I’m quite lucky as I work on microfossils, so in just a few grammes of rock I can find hundreds or even thousands of tiny fossils! I’m lucky that I teach palaeontology, and we take our students out on fieldtrips to famous fossil-hunting locations, where we get to find some really nice fossils – my favourites are trilobites, shark teeth and ammonites.
I have no idea – lots and lots. My current research project takes me to a place where you can find rock that is so fine grained, amazing tiny details are preserved. I’m usually looking for fossil leaves, but they are pretty rare. I find seeds quite often, sometimes even with their wings. I found an insect with legs and wings not that long ago. In fact, when I’m doing fieldwork, fossil ant wings over 30 million years old are so common that I don’t collect them. I have to be careful how much rock I can carry back!
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Tony commented on :
I’m quite lucky as I work on microfossils, so in just a few grammes of rock I can find hundreds or even thousands of tiny fossils! I’m lucky that I teach palaeontology, and we take our students out on fieldtrips to famous fossil-hunting locations, where we get to find some really nice fossils – my favourites are trilobites, shark teeth and ammonites.
Peta commented on :
I have no idea – lots and lots. My current research project takes me to a place where you can find rock that is so fine grained, amazing tiny details are preserved. I’m usually looking for fossil leaves, but they are pretty rare. I find seeds quite often, sometimes even with their wings. I found an insect with legs and wings not that long ago. In fact, when I’m doing fieldwork, fossil ant wings over 30 million years old are so common that I don’t collect them. I have to be careful how much rock I can carry back!