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This past weekend I attended the Florida Paleontological Society's spring field trip to a shell pit in Charlotte County, Florida. These trips along with others I take, give me the opportunity to catch up with friends, many who are Fossil Forum members. This got me thinking about a topic for pictures of FF members in the field. From this past week @Shellseeker collecting 1.8 million year old fossil shells from the Caloosahatchee Formation in South Florida.

Hi! While I've also been fossil collecting, I am also volunteering for a local theatre company right now. This month, we will hopefully be leading a free acting program for youth in our community. Among my roles is writer/co-writer for the script that the youth will be performing. Ideas for what the script will be about have been scarce, but I do have one idea. I am thinking of making a vignette play (essentially an anthology of related scenes) about the lives of fossil hunters and palaeontologists. The scenes would be transcribed from various historical accounts and stories published in literature, but I would like to have some modern day scenes as well! If you are comfortable with it, I would really love to hear some of your craziest or most interesting stories from your lives of fossil hunting and collecting! Maybe it was a thrilling brush with danger while in the field, maybe it was an interaction between you and a cooky character, maybe it was a moment that cemented your love for fossils early in your life. I'll take anything! Regale me with your tales in the replies section or by sending them directly to me! Details, names, etc. may be changed or omitted, but I'd like to keep them as accurate as possible. Please also indicate if you would potentially be alright if your story made it into the production somehow. Thank you!

I’ve been busy with work the last few days and have been catching up on the news this morning. Just realized that California got hit with 2 big earthquakes in as many days, and it may not be over yet! I know we have some forum members that live out that way. Everyone ok?

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the late reply in posting this, but I was busy on the weekend with a course I'm taking, so it took me a few days to get my act together. On Friday, October 12th, 2018, a bunch of TFF members met up at Penn Dixie Fossil Park in Hamburg, New York in order to do some group fossil-hunting for mid-Devonian trilobites and other critters. The members in the pictures that follow are Malcolm @Malcolmt (he's wearing the beige bucket hat), Greg @Greg.Wood (he's in the striped shirt), Ken @digit (he's in the red jacket), Ken's wife Tammy (she's in the blue jacket), my daughter Viola (she's the only child in the group, so she's easy to spot!), Kane @Kane (he's in the black shirt), Kane's partner Deb (she's in the black jacket), and Mike @ischua (he's in the blue touque and green jacket). Diane @Mediospirifer and her husband were there, but I didn't get any pictures with them - so sorry! - perhaps Ken got a few photos... I encourage the others members of the group to add pictures to this thread if they have any, especially pictures of the finds - thanks! Monica The group hard at work: Malcolm using one of his toys to clear off some dust and debris: Greg doing some heavy lifting: Malcolm splitting some rock: continued...

Has anyone established whatever happened to a couple of our members, Chris (CBOB) and Jim (OldTimer)? I have written notes months ago, but they show that they have never been read.

I see right now that we have 25 thousand The Fossil Forum members. Wow, Holy Hydnoceras! No wonder it is so busy around here. Thanks for all the interesting discussions. John

I've been a member of cloudynights forum for 8 years. It's the most popular astronomy web-forum in the world. Just recently I changed my avatar over there to an Archeopteryx fossil pic. Then I came here and changed my avatar to a picture I took of the Orion Nebula. Ha!!! What is your avatar? What's it's significance? Scott Original image:

Hey Hi Y'all, I just noticed that The Fossil Forum has 22,000 members! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

What is the most effective way to locate members in my area to plan fossil collecting tirips? Dan

I know i for one enjoy to know who i am talking with and like to visualize a face. Let's see some mug shots! Im told i look "unapproachable" and "intimidating", so let's put that to rest now. So if you see.me with my head down rockhounding, come up and say hi! Im a big biker looking guy, but i don't bite. I work in the motorcycle industry, so i have to keep up my badass look, but little do most know how truly nerdy i am! Lol! My son and I