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It's shaped different then most of the limestone rocks around it. I found it in blue river in Kansas City Missouri

Friend found this. Its odd and I couldn't tell what it is. Might be naturally occurring. A fossil. Or possibly accidentally produced by some building work. It has the same pattern going down the middle of it too.

Fossil hunting. Found a few bivalves and some suspected trilobite pieces. But the weirdest find was this. Its probably normal but thought I'd ask what it is?

Aquired a big megalodon tooth who seemed to have certain deformation/pathology to a certain extent. However, it looks like serrations has started to split off in two directions? I'm not familiar with this at all. Anyone who is more familiar with megalodon and shark teeth that can help?

Try not to laugh, but I have a couple of items ( I say items because they have not been identified yet so I have no clue if they are rocks or actual fossils) that have been scrubbed with Dawn and a toothbrush and left to dry. Today I was cleaning some others and went to move some I cleaned the day before, and noticed with my hands wet but clean that some actually felt like they were sticky? Just about to the point of holding it’s self vertical from my finger. If my hands were dry…. These feel and act like any of the others laying there. Does this indicate anything other than strange that is. Thank you

Hello there, Four years ago my dog swallowed a peach pit that slipped out of my hands. He was rushed to the vet but had no signs of distress & we were all convinced that he would naturally pass the peach core… I never did find the stone fruit pit in his excrement but he has been a happy & healthy pet for the last 4 years so I never felt the need to rush him into some emergency operation. WELL, after a warm summer nights walk he came home, chugged a bunch of water & immediately barfed up the most bizarre looking peach pit I have ever seen. Could this be there mystery pit from 4 years ago? He’s not one to eat things he finds outside. PS- he has been happy as a clam for the last week, eating/drinking normally, filled with energy; The usual. Thanks friends! Josh

Hey guys! As some of you may know I run a paleontology education program. I take real fossils to schools and libraries. I've been over the years collecting things to make a mobile pop up museum. All that being said... I've been wanting to make a display of fossils from really weird animals that we can find fossils of. So far I have an edestus tooth and finally got myself a Tully Monster today. I am having trouble coming up with ideas, and as I have dealt mostly with dinosaur fossils, I am hoping to have the help of some of my fellow forum members who have a broader knowledge base than I. It doesn't have to be something that you have for sale or trade, but I'm simply looking for ideas of actually obtainable fossils I can be on the lookout for. I'm starting to look for trilobites but am in over my head here too lol. Any ideas on anything would be an IMMENSE help. Thanks y'all!

Hello all! First post here. I have lurked in the past. I am a avid shark tooth hunter in Virginia. Today I picked up a small shark tooth and then about a foot away I found this. I don’t have a clue and have searched online to no avail. Originally I believe I was looking at it upside down. I was thinking canine. But I now believe what I thought were the teeth are actually the roots. Any info is greatly appreciated. This came from the rappahannock river in the tappahannock area.

Hi Folks, Let me say up front, there won't be any photos in this report, unfortunately. To make a long story short, I am having camera and PC issues. Next trip out, I will have this fixed. I was reluctant to write a report without photos, but I wanted to share a couple of weird finds and events that happened out on the river. We went out twice last week. The first trip was to Gardner - one of my recent favorite spots to hunt. This trip out, I grabbed a bunch of that micro-matrix material, which was my main focus for going to Gardner. We had a nice paddle and spent an entire day on the river - we put in at the ramp at about 9am and stayed until 5:30pm. We paddled a couple miles from the ramp to one of our usual spots and found a decent amount of common fossils - small shark teeth, turtle, deer, mammoth tooth/ivory fragments, dugong ribs, and the usual suspects. Nothing to write home about, but good stuff for trades and give-aways. On this day, it was pretty outside - mild temps, cool breezes, and sunny. While taking a break and having lunch on the side of the river, my wife spotted a large softshell turtle that was stuck (wedged) into some dead tree branches on the bank. He was stuck pretty good, and looked like he was drying out. How he got there and how long he had been there was not known, but when we released him, he bolted to the water without so much as a thank you. LOL. So, I guess we did a good deed that day. A few days later, we decided to hit a new stretch of river. I will call it "Location A" because we did pretty good and I may have found myself a new honey hole. So, I am keeping this location to myself for now. I will say it is on the middle Peace and near an overpass. We had a nice paddle and found a remote spot with a lot of small teeth and other fossils. I found a nice tapir cheek tooth and more small to medium teeth than I usually find at Gardner. We spent the whole day on the river again, and on the way back, we decided to stop at the overpass and do some magnet fishing. My grandson just recently got interested in magnet fishing thanks to YouTube. He had just received is magnet fishing kit in the mail the day before, so we brought it with us. The overpass looked promising. The water was shallow and the sun was overhead, so the water was well illuminated. We could see a lot of rocks and debris in the water. We beached the kayaks got out. The water was about knee deep on me and waist deep on my grandson. Right away we found some odd stuff. Beside the usual steel bolts and rusty iron chunks, we found a Toshiba laptop. It was smashed and in two pieces. I wondered why it ended up in the river. I was suspicious. It looked like it was a nice laptop. Did it have some evidence of a crime on it? Well, it was in bad shape, so we put it in our garbage bag and kept searching. We found a lot of trash. Lots of bottles, cans, and just junk. We removed most of it (the stuff that wasn't too heavy) and paddled it out to dispose of properly later. Right as we were getting ready to leave, I saw a rectangular "rock" that was covered in algae and just didn't look right. I called my grandson over and had him throw the magnet on it. It stuck strongly and we hauled the object out of the deeper water and into the shallows by the bank. It was a safe. A small, personal-sized safe. The type that was about 12x12x12-ish (inches). It had one of those digital keypad mechanisms, which was missing from the front - obviously removed by a thief. The door to the safe was stuck in a slightly-ajar manner. Water and sand drained from the opening as we pulled it from the water. It was very heavy and we couldn't get the door open. So, we put it in the kayak to bring home. At this point, it was getting late, so we called it a day and headed back. The next day, after a good night's rest, I worked on the safe. I didn't have high hopes. The locking mechanism was missing and the door was ajar. I guessed that some thief stole it, broke it open, removed the contents, and tossed the empty safe off the bridge into the river. Well, my guess was pretty close, but the safe was not entirely empty. What we had apparently found was some drug dealer's safe. The inside of the door had a pot leaf sticker on it (still intact). There was a terry-cloth hand towel, a broken glass pipe, and some little plastic baggies that appeared to be empty save for some river sand. It was quite a disappointment and not the stash of gold coins we were hoping for. LOL. But, it was an interesting find for a first-timer and my grandson was pretty excited about it. He got to go to bed that night dreaming of gold coins and diamond jewelry inside the mystery river safe. He's definitely fired up to do some more magnet fishing. I still have a few oddball fossils that I found that need ID'ing and will try to get those photo'ed soon. Weather permitting, we might go again this coming week or the next.

Found in Germany, sadly i don´t know if i found it where i live, in Hamm NRW, germany or while i was visting either the north or east sea (Nordsee/Ostsee). Had it since I was a small child and was always fascinated by it but couldnt find out, what it is. Because I have it in my possession for about 15 years, i cant really tell much more about location or anthing else, just that it looks like an egg to me, but that might be what I want it to be. its about 6x3x2,5cm big, one side is almost flat with some dark spots and a crack i think going through it. the other side looks like an egg, but has a crater on it. Between the flat and the convex is a dark grey border around 1mm thick that goes around the whole thing.

I've got this little tooth from my dad he found in North Carolina last year. It just looks really really weird to me. It looks like a Megalodon tooth, but I'm not 100% sure. Is it anything worth or is it special?

Hello, I found this piece 2 weeks ago on the beach of Breskens in Zeeland. I don’t know what it is and there were not several options. I get stuck with this piece of bone. I hope that someone know what it is! The sizes are in cm.

I am on vacation in Maine when I came across this weird rock that was completely different from all different rocks in the area. It had an outer layer that was very cracked up, but could easily be broken off from the the other layer, like a shell. It was fairly heavy, but it seemed so weirdly different!

This specimen was found embedded in Dakota Sandstone in western South Dakota is late Cretaceous . There are similar specimens in the area. I am at a lost to what it is. I have a few ideas, but I want to hear from others. Thank you. .

Ello' all! I found this funky thing and originally thought it might be a peice of pot or some humanite of some kind. But on getting it home and drying it out, it feels too dense for that. It's been pretty heavily sea polished, but the ridge on it looks unusual to me. And the entire peice has a slight curvature which seems odd for a natural formation. It comes from ice age clay, so the context is dubious. What are your expert thoughts? Thank you!

https://scitechdaily.com/paleontologists-discover-odd-shrimp-that-fills-hole-in-fossil-record/amp/ Enjoy!

Hello again! I found this lovely lump of coral today, but it seems to have a bonus weird-boy sticking out of it! Firstly, any idea what kind of coral this is? Rugosa? But then - any idea what the bonus weird thing is? Haha Thank you very much! I'm learning so much from y'all!

Hello all! So I found this oddball in an ice age clay cliff-face yesterday. When I was cleaning it tonight I noticed some unusual radiating lines coming from one corner on each of this cube-thing's long edges. I Took some quick snaps while wet and I'll post some dry ones in a mo! What weirdy beardy thingy is this? Thank you, all knowing Fossil Forum!

My best guess is turtle shell. The top layer of this specimen seems to be keratin... but beyond that I’m clueless. All layers are very crumbly. Specimen has no redeeming aesthetic value, beyond being mysterious and... weird. Found in a spoil pile near Aurora, NC.

Hi all, Was looking through some fossils online and came across this one. It was in the "Exclusive fossils" section; so I got really surprised seeing this "pebble" in there. The seller claims it is the fossil skull of a Hybodus shark. Now to me this is very weird. As we all know, sharks have a cartilaginous body; so their skeleton doesn't fossilize easily. That's why I am doubtful about the skull of this shark being so well preserved, with the brain and all. Plus, to me this just looks like a funny-shaped pebble. The only thing that makes it more believable for me are the "teeth" in the last closeup photo. I might be completely wrong on my suspicion, and this might indeed be an exceptional incredible piece. But then shouldn't it be more at home in a museum??? What do you guys think? Best regards, Max

I have found this thing in a campanian marine phosphate deposit. It came along with fish and shark teeth. It looks like some kind of tooth, but I have no idea. The brown area is translucent and looks like enamel. Although the grey is thicker and sharp. Any experts on cretaceous fish would be welcome Ps. This is definately not just a rock, I am fairly familiar with this deposit and can judge a rock from a fossil. Could anybody I'd this please?

I found this fossil on a beach close to the Sir Bani Yas ferry jetty in Ruwais, UAE. I have found many invertebrate fossils in this area. This is not an invertebrate! It looks like there are pieces of ribs in the middle. I think it might belong to a turtle. The beach could have been built by pumping sand into the ocean, I don't know if that helps.

Can you guys identify this for me please? thank you! Very weird species. My observations: skull and dentition resembling modern felines, with eye sockets to the front and sharp teeth pointing to carnivores. If you look at the feet, knees and lung, the lungs are thin on top then enlarge at the bottom, the knees are similar to ours (bent to the front) instead of cats (bent to the back) and has large long feet. These three factors indicate the possibility of a biped specimen? Notice how each feet has one finger with an extra bone, like some dinosaurs, maybe housed a claw? However, the Waist bone and spine bending at the beginning of the waist bone show that the species is more inclined to walk on all fours. The problem is that this fossil is lacking arms, with no presence or indicator of even a shoulder socket (weird, or possible?). I am confused! Please help

Hi all, Found these oddballs at Cap-Blanc-Nez, France. So Cretaceous in age. What do you think they are? I'm not even sure that they are anything, they might just be weird geologic formations. Looking forward to hearing your opinion. Thanks in advance, Max Oddball #1: (kinda flat; and the white spots are concave)