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At the end of August this year I travelled to Larvik in southern Norway to visit "Norges stein og mineralmesse". On my drive from Nässjö in Småland to Strömstad in Bohuslän i took a short detour to visit Taberg. Taberg is a huge iron ore mountain consisting of Titanomagnetite-Ovlivinite which is only found in Taberg, Sweden and Rhode island, U.S.A. The ore body was created 1.2 billion years ago and has survived both a number of ice ages as well as several attempts of mining. Today the mountain is protected by law and during winter the old mine shafts house hundreds of bats. Being Smålands fifth highest peak it makes for a great view of lake Vättern. Further up north I made a short stop at Femstenaberg. This rest area is found just before the exit to Skee and is only accessible if travelling north on the E6 towards Oslo. Right next to the toilets are the subfossil remains of a Balaena mysticetus that was found 72 metres above today's sea level, during the construction of the new E6 highway. The remains are dated through the C14 method to be around 14000 years old. Subfossil vertebrates are quite rare in Sweden, as far as i know you won't find one exhibited outside of a museum anywhere in Sweden except here. As the day was nearing its end I took the ferry from Strömstad to Sandefjord and got to enjoy the sun setting over the Oslo fields Syenites and Monzonites.

From BBC News : https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220324-how-to-maximise-your-chances-of-being-fossilised

Texas has a lot of Pleistocene bones present in the southeast portion of the state north through Dallas. From reading, they are found in a limestone gravel bed layer. Do these bones tend to be subfossils or bone that has undergone extensive mineralization? I’m curious, trying to find online if anyone has managed to extract ancient DNA from Texas bones. Much more likely from subfossils. Also, would anyone have a picture of what the Pleistocene limestone gravel bed layer in Texas looks like? Thanks!

Hey, found this bone on the beach in Salthill, Galway, Ireland. I have no idea wether it's actually a fossil or not, but if it is a fossil, I suspect it's not a true fossil. It's such a small fragment that it's probably no good for determining what creature it came from, but I'd love to give it a go. It's probably around 6-7cm long, but I can't find my ruler anywhere, so I'll get an actual measurement when I can. Let me know if more photos would be helpful. Thanks for your help!

Hi. I just acquired these fish teeth on our favorite (by default) online auction house. The seller gave the information that they are sub-fossil, Pleistocene in age 17,000 years old and from Calle Majanicho on Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands. Unfortunately he couldn't identify them for me. I'm thinking they come from some kind of ray. Any ideas as to genus or species?

"An almost perfectly preserved whale skeleton thought to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old has been discovered in Thailand. " https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55097088

Hi everyone, Here I've two teeth, which seems -as you can see by the color- to be fossils or sub-fossils. I found them in a beach of a volcanic lake (Central Europe), where there aren't sedimentary formations, so I suppose they are not older than the lake itself (the collapse of the caldera and the formation of the lake are dated between 400,000 and 150,000 years ago). Do you think they could be recent fossil or subfossil? Which kind of animal? They are 3 and 2 cm long.

Years of collecting the strand line in Asbury Park, NJ, have revealed a lot of the rarer elements of the modern shallow marine fauna, as well as of the Cretaceous marine biota whose fossils wash up there. But this month I was astounded to come across this shell, which I believe to be a craniid brachiopod's dorsal valve. Based on its condition I can't be sure whether it's modern, subfossil, or even Cretaceous. It's matrix-free and shows signs of having been encrusted by cheilostome bryozoa. Can someone confirm or refute this ID? Can someone with expertise in the Cretaceous coastal plain comment on the likelihood of this specimen's possible Cretaceous origin? Thanks!