Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Accidental Fossil Hunter


Recently, I went to see the IMAX T-Rex Documentary where 3 kids find a T-Rex Fossil in North America. This made me remember my own accidental fossil discovery when I was in elementary school. We had just moved to a new neighborhood close to a creek that is known as a place for fossil hunting. One day we were planting shrubs in our yard.  We hit something hard and after checking the rocks we had in hand my mom thought they could be fossils.  We decided to take them to the University in our town where they help identify fossils. They said the fossils we found were about 90 million years old from marine life.  This area where we now live was a sea bed and under water at that time.  As a child,  I became a collector of fossils, stones and colorful rocks.  Now, I still keep all my fossils and my favorite stones, because this little collection ROCKS!!!

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