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Happy almost Halloween! Show us the scariest thing that has ever happened to one of your fossils or something about fossils that is related to halloween. Mine is this. I'd bought a fake mosasaur jaw but I didn't know it was fake. I'd put it in the sink to clean it off and then the whole thing crumbled. I did get some mosasaur teeth out of it though.

Happy Halloween you lot of little monsters of TFF .

I am on my way to late afternoon Doctor appt, but I am always on the lookout for LARGE TEETH.... I took this photo thru my pickup window... so, large teeth == YES!, mammal = YES !!!.. maybe, fossilized ... well maybe not... Happy Halloween,

Halloween is coming up soon so lets share our fossil related horror stories! They can range from Preparation accidents, missed opportunities, breaking specimens, close encounters with a dangerous animal hunting, near death experiences, or even receiving a fossil from an old haunted collection, pretty much anything a hunter and collector would find horrifying. One of my personal fossil horror stories involves a a terrifying bump in the night! I had recent found and started a to use a new plastic shelf I found to store my finds from a recent new spot. I started to notice a few days in the shelf was already nearly filled to capacity, so I decided I would add no more after today's load. Sometime after mid-night I heard a sudden loud bang and woke up to the plastic shelf tipping over forward, one of the support wheels had poped out! Luckily the shock awakened my superhuman reflexes of seeing my fossils in danger so I leapt up and was able to save the shelf from crashing down. I was shaken but since then stabilized the shelf, it was truly horrifying to see that moment when my fossils could've been severely damaged or destroyed

Trick or Treat. Preparing this years ghoulish display. Two witches pots full of treats to hand out. In one cauldron, Halloween candies for the young kids. The older Treaters get a 'dead thing' if they are brave. They must creep pass the scary creatures and reach into the cauldron to grab a Hadrosaur vertebra. Of course , a hand will try and grab them first. Scream!

One of our amazing members Bev, has a website for fossils as many of you know. However, many may have not seen it as of late, so I'm going to give you a taste of the crazy shenanigans that are taking place in SE MN! http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/ Enjoy!