Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

[Auspex]

I just see things; Missourian hears voices!

[Missourian]

I just see things; Missourian hears voices!

I don't hear voices; I just see the closed captioning....

[Pilobolus]

A very nice Late Cretaceous shark tooth.

sharktooth.jpg

It's rare to get such good root preservation...

[Pilobolus]

Cretaceous horse head (Equus robustus)

[Missourian]

Cretaceous horse head (Equus robustus)

That looks like something from ancient Persepolis.

[painshill]

I think I've posted these before for other reasons, but... crusty, yes but not crustacean (nor trilobite):

(from Ohio, possibly slag-melt)

And proof that the aliens have in fact visited us already:

(glacial mud concretion from Washington State... but I reeeelly wanted to say it was found near Roswell )

[Missourian]

And proof that the aliens have in fact visited us already:

Concretion1.jpg

(glacial mud concretion from Washington State... but I reeeelly wanted to say it was found near Roswell )

That is by far the coolest looking concretion I've ever seen.

[painshill]

That is by far the coolest looking concretion I've ever seen.

Thanks. I'm waiting for it to hatch into something triffid-like. We're all doomed. Doooooomed I tell you.

[Pilobolus]

lt)

And proof that the aliens have in fact visited us already:

Concretion1.jpg

(glacial mud concretion from Washington State... but I reeeelly wanted to say it was found near Roswell )

Wow! Look what mother nature wrought! That's cool!

[Pilobolus]

'older' MGM logo

[donnyjoe]

Eocene concretion found near an abandoned nesting site. Obviously a socket which would have held a good sized tooth. There is some pathology so a positive ID may not be possible.

[Pilobolus]

Eocene concretion found near an abandoned nesting site. Obviously a socket which would have held a good sized tooth. There is some pathology so a positive ID may not be possible.

concretion.jpg

Thanks for keeping this alive...I have not been around for a while, but obviously, this is a clam or oyster of some sort...

[fossilized6s]

Eocene concretion found near an abandoned nesting site. Obviously a socket which would have held a good sized tooth. There is some pathology so a positive ID may not be possible.

concretion.jpg

Looks very bulbous.....or should i say bulbless. I wonder if this came from the Westinghouse formation?

[Pilobolus]

Karl Marx in profile.

I'm lichen that hair style

[Pilobolus]

Fairly certain this is some kind of hadrosaurid head...arm or leg bone there at the back

[Pilobolus]

Eurypterid there in the upper left of this hashplate.

[Pilobolus]

Can anyone I.D. this vert?

[Wrangellian]

Karl Marx in profile.

I'm lichen that hair style

I thought maybe Charles Darwin..?

[JohnJ]

Can anyone I.D. this vert?

Seazoria?

[Pilobolus]

On 7/23/2015 at 4:05 PM, Wrangellian said:

I thought maybe Charles Darwin..?

Yes, I think your choice of old dead guy is a better fit!

[Pilobolus]

Seazoria?

Well....you just introduced me to something completely nuts...thanks.

[ynot]

Hey hi Everybody!!

I thought that it might be fun to see the rocks You have found that look like something but are not.

Things like river "eggs", skulls and this mastodon head...

It was found sticking out of the wall of a cavern in Volcano, California.

If You have one of these rocks that looks like something it is not, please let 's see a picture of it here!

Tony

[tmaier]

Can you PROVE that is NOT a mastodon head?

[ynot]

Can you PROVE that is NOT a mastodon head?

-- no!

Tony

[mrieder79]

Oh man. My dive buddies and I are always finding triangular bits of coral and bone that feel like monster megs. These are universally thrown away in frustration when they come under the scrutiny of our dive lights, so I don't have any pics.