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Fluorescent Minerals And Fossil Collecting, Well Sorta...


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You will find that all Oligocene teeth from the Badlands glow orange/yellow under long wave light. Some of the bones glow green and red under shortwave light. Most Moroccan teeth glow yellow under long wave. Most Chinese teeth do the same. Some fossils are fluorescent and phosphorescent (glows after you turn the blacklight off!) I have a sabercat skull from China that is phosphorescent. So cool to see the sabers and teeth light up in the dark after I turn off the blacklight!

By the way, many coprolites from the badlands are radioactive. We call it hot sh#$.

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