Fossil Collecting

Making a cast of a fossil is a good way to share your fossil with other people. Often, museums will make casts of their fossils to give to other museums or to individuals who donated fossils they...

Brachiopods and bivalves are common invertebrate fossils. They are often confused for one another because they both have a pair of shells connected by a hinge. However, you can follow these simple...

Contrary to the antics of Fred Flintstone and company, no human ever employed a wooly mammoth as an automatic dishwasher or enjoyed a Brontosaurus Burger during a backyward barbeque. In fact, the...

If fossils could talk, they could tell us exactly where they came from and how and when they ended up becoming fossilized. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. However, fossils do leave certain...

Fossils allow us to step back in time to study the world and its inhabitants. You can start with the basic tools and add to them as your hobby grows.

Fossils can be shells, bones, teeth, footprints, leaves, seeds, tree parts, or any remains of long-ago plants and animals.