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I found these on the beach in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. A few people have told me they think it’s slag but due to the location I am not so sure. They were specifically found on Edisto beach. Any help would be so appreciated as I am a novice.

Are these rocks fossils ? Thanks!

Hello everyone. Fairly new… just found these. Riverside County. Just trying to figure out what they are. They looked pretty interesting. Would anyone know what they are?

... It looks like it, but I found it in Western Massachusetts, and I didn’t think we had any here? There’s two different pieces. One is much bigger and kind of looks like a leg of lamb or something. there is an edge on it that’s kind of grayish and feels like wood, almost like that part of the wood hardened but didn’t change color or anything. the other piece is a little smaller than my palm & has more obvious banding.

Found in Crawford county Indiana in while digging petrified wood out of a massive uprooted trees roots that uprooted several feet of earth with it. And found several that are littler and shaped kinda like a stretched out heart and every one I've opened has a fossilized bird in it. The last 5 pics are all of the one bottom right and it's 2 halves and go top, bottom, split with both halves, then each side and looks to be half an egg with a embryo in it. Pics 7-12 are of the top one and its in three sections and go top, bottom,side view, first splits halves, second split halves, third split halves. Pics 13-17 are the bottom left and two pieces. Im sceptical about it but goes top, bottom, side view bottom up, split both sides, split halves different angle.

Hello from West Virginia!! I am new here but I have immensely enjoyed reading all of the information I have found here tonight!! So my kids and I, were bored Sunday evening, so I had a “ Who can find the prettiest rock“ contest. We all thought we found some nice ones and I made the kids dinner and put them to bed. I don’t know why because we have picked up rocks many other times before, but this night I soaked the rocks in CLR. I know that’s probably a horrible thing to do.… But the next morning after the kids were to school I scrub them real good and was amazed! I think there’s so many fossils. My mom thinks I’m crazy! Lol and the more I seem to try to figure this out the more confused I am. Please help! Did we really find dinosaur bone, eggs, and teeth?!! SMH!! I tried to group them together as I thought fit. Hahaha.

Surface find yards apart

I think I've discovered fossils. Super Interested in finding out what they are, but absolutely no idea where to begin or how. Please help!!!

Please help me figure out what this is

Hello All, Thank you for your time. I've recently settled into my retirement "fun" job which has me visiting residential construction sites right after the initial grading and excavation phases. I have seen some interesting things in the grading discard piles now that I'm paying attention. Disheartening to think of how much history is destroyed each day.. I did some research and I am now hooked on a quest to find something really memorable. Moreover, my wife is skeptical that anything I have found is more than just a rock. I have shown her a few clams that have pearls in them and other shellfish that are complete enough to readily identify but nothing seems to sway her. Here are some of the many interesting finds I've come across. Some of the fossils I've identified, but the rocks, which are all oddly found in the same limited amounts in the same areas a fossil is found topsoil, have my imagination running wild. So needless to say it's been a lot of fun to think about. I decided to walk our property after a recent rain and look for anything standing out. I picked up a large piece of what I thought was sandstone and soon realized I was holding a piece to a very large oyster/clam. I found 5 pieces in all that by my estimation at one time all went together to make a clam about 3 to 4 feet in diameter. The largest chunk still has a "pearl" in it and I removed a wadded up ball of hair for safekeeping after all the insides came out. Cool finds indeed, got lucky is all and even then I read where Texas is abundant in these types of fossils. Does the size of the clam / the wad of hair and the pearl(s) etc make it worth telling someone about?