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Hi there everyone. I would really appreciate your skills/opinions about if my little ''treasure'' is actually a coprolite or not. I have always believed it to be, just because it looks like a poo with something in it to me. I have forgotten where i found it, but most likely it was in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. It is ovalish in shape and appears to have a ''skin' wrapped around some sort of internal content. As I know zero about fossils, your time and expertise is gratefully appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from someone with excitement and thanks. Photos hopefully attached! Many cheers, Kazza

Found at a river mouth in South Island, New Zealand.

I collected this piece in Brisbane, Australia. Can I pease ask: How do I know if it is fossilised coral or just recent coral? (how can I tell) Thanks. Can you please give me more information on this piece, what kind of brain coral is it ? Thank you so much!

Hello to all of you, I am new to this community. To to make the story short, I live in Lebanon (on the east mediterranian sea) and found few interesting stones in my family summer house. The story behind them is that my grand father found them somewhere near Mount Lebanon +- 1000m of altitude some 50 years ago. To me they really look like a dino's head, at least half of it (the other half probably having decomposed). Also note the shell like fossils that are incrusted on it and the tooth sockets. What do you experts think? Any clue on the species? It weighs +- 3kg and it is rock solid I have two more pieces to share with you folks later

Hello everyone I have recently obtained an opal parcel of rough to cut into gems from the opal fields at lightning ridge Australia, however right before I was about to grind this one rough opal something stood out. I remembered walking in the natural history museum in Sidney Australia and noticed the opalized teeth of varies animals/dinos etc. This one was just like one I had seen many years ago. I cleaned it only; no polish just water and a soft paintbrush as not to alter it. From my research, I found a possible match a Hypsilophodon it lived in the area where lightning ridge opals are found and some recorded fossils of this dino are sometimes unearthed there in small pieces. I have tried to contact museums and or universities as I live near OSU and they have one of the best paleontological programs in the country (or so I’m told) and have not heard back after 6 months of trying from any of them. I would like to know if it is a real opal replacement of a tooth or a lookalike. It measures 13.33mm long X 10.9mm wide X 4.02mm thick. And is very detailed under a microscope with tooth like root. Any ideas? I have cut thousands of opals from rough, and have seen millions of pieces of rough easy, including opalized fossils, even some plesiosaurs teeth but never this. The miner, who sold me the opals, said that he has been finding some opalized dino bone fragments lately but they are unidentifiable as they are crushed, and very small pieces, and I also purchased a opalized finger or toe bone from a very nearby find, possibly a turtle flipper bone.

Received in an opal parcel, i have been told this is a fossil, maybe of a plant stem. If so, i would like to at least put a definite name of some sort on it. Any and all help is appreciated! feel free to ask any questions! Thank you! IMG_2225.MOV

Hello, im stef and from the UK. i have had these a while and always wanted to get them looked at. i know there were 3 types of dinosaur that lived in south East England : the Megalosaurus Warkerii trio of which Baronyx belongs to. any ideas? If you would like close ups, different angles etc to help please let me know. This could be interesting! Kind regards Stef

I found this while looking for shells and shark teeth is this some sort of fossilised egg maybe? Approx 5cm long