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What animals lived with humans and mammoths during the Younger Dryas in new england?
braxasaurus posted a topic in Questions & Answers
(I ask for paleoart purposes) what animals lived in the northeastern, more specifically New England, even most specifically massachusetts/cape cod. I want to make a peice with some megafauna that lived during the Younger Dryas, and mabe some early humans if my inability to draw humans becomes at least somewhat better. Thank you! -
Any idea if this old shell imprinted or just random formation Found it on a beach after storm.
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I was going through an old box while moving and came across this rock I collected on a beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts as a kid. I remember being convinced it was a dinosaur tooth and would love to know how close I was, if at all, haha. Apologies that I can't narrow the location down much further but it's likely from the Falmouth area on the south side or the Dennis beaches faces north as those are the places we visited most often. Can add more/better pics if necessary. Scale in centimeters on the bottom.
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Hello to all! I'm an avid sea glass collector here on Cape Cod and have been collecting it for almost a decade on a beach hugely covered by rocks - which I've pretty well ignored until this recently caught my eye. I picked it up thinking it was just an interesting composite rock but was completely stumped when I saw the wood grain section as well. After some quick internet research I was so amazed to find it seemed to be petrified wood. I think it's safe to say that I probably haven't given such a thing a second thought since a grade school science class so had the contrast in the piece hadn't been so pronounced I never ever would've even thought to look for it. I still have a huge amount to learn about the identification of classifications, but am I looking at an example of black petrified wood? The feel of it is extremely smooth. The last two photos are of a piece I found the other day with some beautiful orange & red transparencies when aiming a flashlight behind it. It would seem like a pretty straight forward piece of petrified wood but perhaps I'm wrong? Ever since that day I've been collecting like mad but I really want to education myself about identifying petrified wood vs agates or other rocks, so if anybody could recommend any books for a reference guide it would be much appreciated. Thanks for your insights. , Julie
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Hi, my name is Jess, I am from a city in Massachusetts where we are lucky enough to have commercial fishermen go out and bring back some of the best seafood. I dated a fishermen for a bit and I could of cared less about money, I always wanted the sand dollars and sea glass and for such a horrible relationship I was at least able to make it out alive with what we thought to be possibly a saber tooth tigers? I appreciate any feedback. Thank you ! Jessie
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My wife dragged me away from Big Brook this weekend for a trip to Cape Cod. Beautiful but non-fossilious Cape Cod. So what’s a fossil collector to do? Well if you’re on the Cape you walk the beaches looking for modern shark teeth and perhaps some cool bone. No shark teeth and the closest I came was likely modern bovine teeth (although I suspect it’s been a long while since cows were grazing out there). In a pinch, rocks and shells would have to do and I had a ball nonetheless. I did find some horseshoe crab and sea bird skeletons but so far she who must be obeyed won’t let me bring them inside so they’re still in the trunk. BTW does anyone have any idea to strip the mussel shells down to the mother of pearl level?
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Hello folks. I’m in Cape Cod on vacation and although I know I won’t find any fossil shark teeth here I HAVE to collect something so I walking the beach picking up rocks and shells and hoping for shark teeth or some marine bone. I did find these teeth on the beach and hoping that someone (Harry ?) can identify them. Don’t have a ruler but 2-3 inches long. Thank you all
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Hi everyone, I just joined up from southeastern MA. I have 0 experience in fossil hunting, but I do own a couple of fossils and have always been interested in them - I just never realized I could go out and look for them myself... After reading up on this forum I think I will try Cory's Lane in RI within the next couple of weeks and possibly the North Attleboro area near the pumping station and town compost pit (if anyone has any experience here, I'd like to ask a couple of general questions about the N. Attleboro site specifically - land ownership, parking, legality of the site given how close it is to an operating business).
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Hi - I found this tooth on the tidal flats in Brewster in cape cod bay a few years ago and was wondering the exact same thing.
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Great White Shark tooth found on Cape Cod, not sure if it is fossilized
shoreman posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello - new member here. I found this great white tooth on Cape Cod recently and it was identified as a White Shark tooth by a local natural history curator, but they didn't think it was fossilized. Any ideas? To me it looked very similar to fossilized teeth I looked up online. When I first pulled it out of the water it was a little more grey/blue/black but once it dried it went this tan/brown color. We have an explosion of Great Whites here recently, but is this fossilized?
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Here's another find I came across a while ago which looks to me like an intact oyster that has fossilized but I'm not sure on this. It almost looks like granite, but the shape is exactly the size of a small oyster - it seems to have some flakiness to it as well on the sides. Any thoughts on this? I tried to photograph all sides. If this was fossilized, any idea how old this would be?
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Hi All, I have just joined the forum. My kids and I have been fossil hunting for years, and have had some luck in various places. Most of the fossils we find are teeth, but there are some that are not easily identifiable by my uneducated eye! Some LOOK like fossils, but likely aren't. Some are definitely fossils, but I have no idea what they are!! I'm hoping to share some of our finds and also maybe get some insight on some of the items that we are curious about. Cheers!
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Hi All, glad to be a new member here - I've been an avid collector of unique looking rocks and objects found on the beaches of Cape Cod and elsewhere in New England. Here's the first that I'm hoping someone out there can identify. It could just be a cool beach rock - but it always struck me as some kind of bone...(ruler is in Centimeters). Thanks for looking! -Brad
