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Dickinsonia fossil discovered in India turns out to be bee hive remnant.
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https://www.iflscience.com/-fossil-that-rewrote-indian-geologic-history-is-actually-a-very-recent-beehive-67370 Original Dickinsonia article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X20303038 Tongue in cheek retraction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X23000254- 4 replies
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As a child, I collected a lot of "fossils". Whether it was from a campsite, a park, a playground, or my own yard, I would pick up rocks and declare them to be fossils. I still have several of the rocks I collected laying around. Most of them, as you would guess, are just oddly shaped rocks. But miniature me may have occasionally picked out things of genuine value. So I'm going to dump a few in this thread and see if I really have anything worth keeping. Note that while I can't remember where I found these all those years ago, they're most likely from within 2 hours of Tulsa, Oklahoma, since that's where I've lived my whole life. Though there's also a chance that a few are from Mexia, Texas. First up is probably the most interesting looking. Looks like it came from a stream or lake, based on erosion. Second up: Third: Fourth: Fifth and final, also has a lot of stream erosion: Tell me your thoughts.
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This is probably an exercise in pareidolia - but could it be a brain endocast? This was self collected July 9, 2011 on San Juan island in Washington State. It was found on private property near the shoreline on the SW corner of the island. The local geology is a complex mixture of Orcas chert and formations of sedimentary and volcanic layers contorted together, peppered with glacial deposits. There are other fossils in the vicinity, including various plants and what I believe are devonian era fish fossils. At first, I thought this was a thunder-egg or nodule that turned to chert/agate. Then, it struck me that it looked like a brain. Perhaps a brain coral of some sort? But it doesn’t look like the photos of brain corals. It did look more like the stromatolite fossils, but no clear match. Something from my biology studies years ago noticed what looked like features of the mammalian brain. But brains don’t fossilize. It also looked too big to be a brain, especially a single lobe without a cerebellum. Was it part of a marine mammal brain? Some sort of brain endocast that turned to agate? It weighs 77g and has not been thoroughly cleaned. One of the photos included is 'as found' and the others show the fossil after it was rinsed off. I haven't given it a thorough cleaning to avoid harm to the sandstone-like coating. I’d love to hear what people think.
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Hi all, I'm back with something I think looks pretty weird. It doesnt look like bone material to me but it otherwise looks like a part if a bone or tooth or something biological as far as animals go, but it could be a rock too. Your thoughts please?
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