Comments on: How to find fossils

By: Hvx

Hvx — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:43:57 +0000

Cool dude!

By: fossil master

fossil master — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:01:04 +0000

i have found loads of fossils in 4 months !

By: CeCe

CeCe — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:21:43 +0000

‘ Fossils Are Very Intressting Objects, We Once Last Year Wrote About Them And STUDIED About Them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:19:56 +0000

I Love FOSSILS

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:27:33 +0000

i have a plant fossils

By: josh

josh — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:15:26 +0000

once i was lookin’ at some rock because im in to fossils and stuff,well anyway i am sure i found an amunite.that was my first fossil i ever found.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:39:19 +0000

me too.i have been interested in fossil rocks for awhile and still,nothing.

By: 90

90 — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:29:09 +0000

Once I found a fossil then I lost it.

By: james

james — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:42:04 +0000

i have two

By: mareman

mareman — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:23:46 +0000

i found a plant fossil once in a sentimental rock

By: christian

christian — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:41:01 +0000

i found a horn coral fossil in my back yard but cant get it out of the rock. also i have many other fossil like clams, moss, ferns and one that looks like dino poo. its got lots of little bones in it.

By: KB

KB — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:47:24 +0000

AWSOME!

By: super

super — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:17:27 +0000

Ilove the ideai!

By: Swamp Thing GO SAINTS

Swamp Thing GO SAINTS — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:47:55 +0000

it does not hav 2 be a dino, it could be a dead cat or dog

By: Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:40:12 +0000

I live in Utah and I know of a few good places. One is called Fossil Mountain by Delta, search on the internet for directions.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:16:42 +0000

i found a rock with a bunch of shell suck in lime stone and sprial shells is this a good find

By: Willy

Willy — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:39:00 +0000

I have a project to find fossils so i came to this site. I found nothing yet.

By: onlysixbucks

onlysixbucks — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:49:51 +0000

I have a fossil I found it on a shelf in a store

By: drillboy

drillboy — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:01:08 +0000

all i want to know is where to find fossils in NewYork and NewJersey.Can i have some advice how to get some fossils.

By: fossil boy

fossil boy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:01:43 +0000

where can i find fossils in new market please help im dying my son is too

By: hunter

hunter — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:31:27 +0000

I live in New Jersey all I find is crystals.

By: CoinCollector

CoinCollector — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:35:31 +0000

Does anyone know a good fossil collecting site where the public can come and find fossils that is close to San Antonio, TX?

By: spinax

spinax — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:21:37 +0000

i LOVE dinosaurs and fossils but where can i find some in Ohio?p.s.i dont have any fossils yet:[

By: fossil hunter of the twenty first century

fossil hunter of the twenty first century — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:44:00 +0000

i love fossils!! i don’t mean to brag but i have 2 amonites (not to mention the amonite fragments), 1 trilobite, 3 shark teeth, tons of fish fosssils, tons of mollosks, clams, oysters, and much other stuff.

By: fossil lover

fossil lover — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:53:56 +0000

dude i dont get it i cant get any fossils and where did you get the trilobites???? man im confused!!!(i live in M.O.

By: Garapan

Garapan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:04:12 +0000

I found a fossil once. Once.

By: claire

claire — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:26:07 +0000

i cant wait till i go tomy lake house.I bet can find tons of fossils.my dad does a lot of construction there. i found some MY BROTHER FOUND REAL GOLD!!!!! ALL I FOUND WAS SOME SILVER AND A REALLY OLD PENNY

By: i cant find fossils

i cant find fossils — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:18:18 +0000

i cant find fossils but i live in utah and i cant find any i look a lot but ive only found 1

By: fired up

fired up — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:05:03 +0000

dragons ,it is very fun

By: fired up

fired up — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:15:59 +0000

i have none, but it is a fun hobby for sure

By: fossil lover

fossil lover — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:04:37 +0000

I am a major fossil collector!I LOVE FOSSILS!
Not to be a bragger,but i have 18 shark teeth,1 trilobite,1 ammonite,bryozoans,anklyosaur tooth,dino bone,dino eggshell fragment,spinosaur tooth,mososaur tooth,2 dino coprolites(don’t ask),and a few others that i forgot…

By: fossilhunter3

fossilhunter3 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:57:48 +0000

I Love fossils but I’ve only found one in my life time i live in Utah and i think its a trilobite does anybody know how to find fossils in Utah if u do tell me

By: welldone56

welldone56 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:25:33 +0000

i have found fossils in a construction site near my house. of course i had to ask purmission first… i found 3 trilobites, 8 ammonoids, and 1 shark tooth. it was a good day for me.

By: hunter

hunter — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:52:33 +0000

a good place to look for fossils is were construction workers cut through a hill or mountian to build a road find one that has alot of lose rock on the ground and you might find somthing i found a few things =)

By: Fossils as a hobby

Fossils as a hobby — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:41:21 +0000

Finding fossils depends on many factors. First, you need to know where to luck. River banks are a good place to start. You are looking for brown rocks called conretions. They look like thick muddish colored flattened rocks. You will have to crack them with a rock hammer. Wear safety glasses always. If you put the rock on its side and smack it with a hammer, it will open easily and often there are very cool fern, plants, insects, etc. Sometimes, in existing rocks, you will find fossils—you must look very closely. Sometimes the entire rock is a fossil. Sometimes there are parts of the rock that has fossils. Look for bivalves, brachipods, clams, corals. It really depends on where you live. Plug in the words fossils on the Internt and click images. This will give you an idea of what you are looking for. Go to your state museum’s website and look for their geology department. I have visited several geologists and seen their personal collection by merely asking them questions. Research your area. Find out if the rocks in your area are of the Silurian time perios or Pennsylvanian era, etc. The websites will tell you what kind of fossils are probably in your area. Go online and see if there are rock clubs you can join in your area. They are very family oriented. They take fieldtrips to fossil-rich areas. You have to do your homework before you begin. It is a fascinating hobby. Good luck!

By: crazygecko

crazygecko — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:20:37 +0000

the great plians used to be underwater, so you can find fossils of ocean animals there.

By: woner

woner — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:52:22 +0000

i find tons of fossils!!!!!!!!

lol…….its kinda cool…. trilobites, ammonites, shark teeth……..

By: ellbell

ellbell — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:53:47 +0000

i was down by the creek and there were rocks with circles. what kind do you soppose they are

By: ellbell

ellbell — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:50:31 +0000

what are the kinds of fossils name that has circles?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:21:35 +0000

I think that is so cool i love fossils but dont have or know how to find them!!!

By: bob

bob — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:34:43 +0000

I live on a farm in Maryland and on my farm there is lots of rocky areas. A couple years ago I was walking on my farm and near a rocky spot in the ground I saw a brown rock that had a row of different shades of purple. I thought the rock locked cool so i cept it. A year later in my den we were studying fosils and my den leader said that we could probably find fosils at our house. Then I thought of the rock i found. The next day i brought the rock to my den and it turns out that the rock was a fosil.

By: maicy

maicy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:38:33 +0000

i love fossil’s. tere cool!! LOVE! FOSSILS!!!!

By: wozz

wozz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:02:47 +0000

I LOVE FOSSILS BUT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FIND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!

By: deoxys

deoxys — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:33:29 +0000

yaaay!

By: danny

danny — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:49:33 +0000

Hi my name is daniel and I really wan’t to know how to find foossils?

By: Rocky

Rocky — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:34:24 +0000

I found a weird-looking fossil. I looked it up and the nick-name for it is “Indian Bead”

the scientific name for it is Crinoid Columnal…

i seem to find a lot of these type fossils…

there IS this creek…at the bottom of my driveway….is there a possibility that i’ll find some fossils there? hopefully?

By: g-funk

g-funk — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:46:45 +0000

i like fossils

By: fossilhunter9

fossilhunter9 — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:44:53 +0000

Its summer break! That means more time to dig for fossils! Your tips are AWSOME!

By: fossilhunter9

fossilhunter9 — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:08:51 +0000

Really cool fossil pictures. I have a creek in the forest in my backyard I have found a few fossils there.From all the information you gave me in boyslife im going outside today to see if I can find any fossils. Where have you found fossils?

By: Bubba

Bubba — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:47:12 +0000

Fossils are really COOL. I LOVE ALL KINDS OF OPAL AND FOSSILS. I COLLECT FOSSILS AND OPALS.

By: mick

mick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:05:21 +0000

I live in Wisconsin and have found lots of fossils over the years. I lived most of my life by

the bay of Green Bay and all you have to do is go to the shore and pick up any rock and

look at it. So many cool things can be found right under your feet.

By: blablabla2008

blablabla2008 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:06:07 +0000

Where I live there’s a lot of fossils in limestone rocks. Once I found a fossil of a shell in KANSAS where there aren’t any lakes.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:48:55 +0000

I have a rock that looks like the heart. It seemed like it at first but then it looked like a fossil.

By: night wing 2100

night wing 2100 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:13:54 +0000

the best fossil are triceratops,t-rex,ammonites,nautiliods

By: dankey7788

dankey7788 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:10:36 +0000

That was a cool artical

By: macaroni175

macaroni175 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:13:31 +0000

This article was interesting because it teaches people a lot about fossils, where they come from, how to find them. And it is very interesting to learn about fossils too. I also like to find fossils from different types of plants that are in my drive way, now in stone form!

By: fish

fish — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:31:32 +0000

I learned so much about fossils i cant wait to go out and start looking.

By: jd

jd — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:43:38 +0000

how to find fossils and other interisting items are actually very easy all you have to do is start to dig with a shovel very carfully and sooner or later you’ll find somthing intresting.

By: mightman

mightman — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:39:03 +0000

sweet fossils!!!!!

By: Fossils!!!

Fossils!!! — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:17:18 +0000

Next time I go outside I will make sure to look for these things

By: cmw

cmw — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:12:14 +0000

the folsels are so cool

By: FeverX

FeverX — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:50:46 +0000

I have found many fossils just looking by the creek and in the pea gravel by our swingset. We find fossils by the Lake Michigan beach alot also.

The best one I have was in a rock garden at our neighbors. They had just gotten a fresh load poured from the truck and I looked down and this is my best fossil ever.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:19:34 +0000

You rock at finding good fossils.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:48:42 +0000

Thanks alot boyslife.com!

By: zach

zach — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:39:02 +0000

Fossils may be gros but they’re awsome I’d like to find fossils.I love to find fossils.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:32:26 +0000

I love to find fossils eather they’re under ground or in the mountains the’re still realy awsometo find them exspeicaly in the summer.

By: code567

code567 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:14:01 +0000

where is the derdra

By: souljaboy

souljaboy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:02:56 +0000

i had a necklace that looked like it had tons of crinoids strung around it.. i think it was just plastic though

By: Buba10

Buba10 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:55:22 +0000

I have A cystal rock and it is still growing

By: nickname

nickname — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:34:14 +0000

In Jurassic park they make dinosoar amusement parks from fossils.

By: caveman

caveman — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:06:53 +0000

i think i found a fossil of a skull

By: Boborinorino

Boborinorino — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:51:19 +0000

Thats awssome

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:48:21 +0000

Rocks are really cool!

By: -_- CH3353

-_- CH3353 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:35:11 +0000

i always find tons of fossils on the exposed side of a cliff

By: bobby joe jr.

bobby joe jr. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:19:49 +0000

Fossils are sweet!!!

By: macaroni175

macaroni175 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:57:36 +0000

I think it is a good article that teaches people a lot on a whole bunch of different types of fossils and what they came from.

By: jakie

jakie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:24:53 +0000

i am jacob i think the corals fossil is cool

By: asd3333333333333333333333333333

asd3333333333333333333333333333 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:43:25 +0000

in a rock

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:42:08 +0000

I took a fossil from my mom’s collection to the Museum of Natural History for a special day they have in March so you can tell if what you have is old and they told me it was from a pre-Jurassic period.

By: fose

fose — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:25:45 +0000

fossals are cool

By: ccr

ccr — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:53:25 +0000

those are so cool

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:50:13 +0000

Fossils are so cool because they were dinosauses!

By: darkside08

darkside08 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:46:12 +0000

i have a GIANT collection of rocks.

By: bobo

bobo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:36:43 +0000

I think that the fossils are very cool on the pictures that they show them here. I have seen a fossil before they were very cool the fossil that I saw was a rat it was killed but we just left it alone and let it do it’s stages that it needs to do before it turne’s into fossil fuel. I do not know why I like them so much but thatb is just the way I am.

I wonder what food they ate before they died.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:50:03 +0000

ok that is sooo cool i want to hold one and get dirty

By: scchocolate

scchocolate — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:19:29 +0000

How do you find fossils in the city?

By: James

James — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:00:50 +0000

Rocks? HO YA I LOVE ROCKS!!!!!

By: bamaboy

bamaboy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:46:55 +0000

im a new cub scout and i like to play basketball and go to the beach where there are lots of fossils and schells to collect from the ocean. i have a kewl collection so far.

By: other me (not the first one) says

other me (not the first one) says — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:51:41 +0000

i think it would be cool to go out and just see a fossil by a stream or somethin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:25:55 +0000

hi my name is bobby and i think rocks are cool

By: greg

greg — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:37:27 +0000

cool

By: jojo

jojo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:19:26 +0000

I always find tons of fossils, but usually they are worthless.

By: papa

papa — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:21:32 +0000

there is this place that is cool that is somewhere in africa.

By: pizza rocks

pizza rocks — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:15:17 +0000

i don’t know

By: b

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:36:45 +0000

i found a fossil in my back yard

By: justme

justme — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:44 +0000

Mr. Evans

What about Leave No Trace ?

By: pokefan

pokefan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:19:08 +0000

i found a fossil i thank it is a dinosuar bone

By: me

me — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:24:45 +0000

i live on a dirt rod and i found a very unusal fossil.

By: AGuy

AGuy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:46:45 +0000

With the unfortunate drought that is occuring in the south eastern states, now is a very good time to look for fossils. I live in Georgia, and there are many sreams and creeks that are completely dried up exposing a lot of rocks you otherwise would not be able to get to or see. Also the river systems are running much lower than usual exposing a lot more of the edge shore, and in some areas you can even get to the bottom of where the water is still running. This makes for a great location as you are able to get to many older rocks that have not even been seen for years, let alone looked at in search for fossils! All along the Appalachian trail you will find dried up streams, creeks, and river beds! So the next time you go hiking, look around for those areas that look like the ground is shaped like a “V”, then you can start looking around for fossils! Good luck and Happy Hunting!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:43:55 +0000

What are the more rare fossils?