Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

If you ever come to this area I highly recommend seeing the bog that I mentioned in my previous post. It is the furthest south that the bog environment/ecosystem exists. I think they still do the tours, and they only allow ten people at a time. I believe it is one day a week throughout the summer.

I can't really do it justice from my experience there in the late 90's, so here is an article from our local newspaper:
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local...cle_e0afed08-6208-543e-a66c-5ec1dc07ca02.html

 

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Wow. Just out of curiosity is that the Rockies? .. It looks like the Southern Alps in New Zealand.

 

Is yours a confirmed turtle shell fossil? I have found a rare and beautful mineral called Isle Royal Greenstone on the beaches here that look alot like a tortoise shell pattern. It happens to be Michigans official state mineral. Pic from Google images :

 

Fossils are totally dope!

Does anyone have any stegosaurus fossils? That's my favourite dinosaur and I'd love to get even just a sliver of a bone someday.

Erin

 

Yeah, Erin... This is my Study in my home. I cannot allow Blue in there as she keeps chewing on the bones...

Steegy is in the foreground, and Fred is in the background.




Oh, sorry, there I go again... wishing and daydreaming. just jokes.

 

Lol, I day dream like that too. Except, Suzie is actually living and I ride her to work everyday. You should see the looks we get!

Erin

 

That looks more like a coral fossil. I wouldn't mind adding a piece of that to my collection. Yes, I have turtle fossil but like a lot of other things it's packed away somewhere around here.

 

Here's a Pea Crab fossil. Found them in California.
And since Wyoming was on the way back:

 

I almost forgot these 2 small meteorites from Arizona.

And I bought these locally; Ivory from a Wolly Mammoth tusk. It feels really smooth and soft.

 

Another hexagonaria fossil, but simpy one that's been mineralized by some green colored minerals, and then polished up by a fossil retailer. Once again, compare the pattern to the one you found on the beach, same type.

If you measure the diameter of the hexagonal patterns perhaps we can determine what species of hexagonaria your fossils belong to.

 

Green with envy here. Fantastic fossils you found there. Especially the crabs, well done! Sadly all we have in Florida is a park with a river in which you must pay a fee to the State to dive in for your chance to pull out a bone fragment of a mammal or a tooth of a megalodon, basically Neogene and Quaternary periods megafauna fossil fragments.

Either that or you can find some Paleogene Era sea fossils such as shells, coral bits, etc., around the Tampa area. Or you can find coquina deposits in northern Florida, but those don't tell you much as it's all a jumble of small bits of crushed up shells and brachiopods from the Permian era. In other words, we are pretty fossil poor compared to most of the country thanks to being underwater most of the time, and being such a flat area with little geological activity.

I know for a fact the Miami area was pretty good for finding fossils of mammoth bones, saber tooth tigers, and other ice age fauna, but all of that has been swallowed up by parking lots and buildings. All that remains is a collection of local fossils that were donated to the Frost museum by the family of some late 19th century local explorer that dug some of these bones up, and some core samples taken which show that beneath the modern city is some rich deposits of Neogene fossils.

 

Yes, another passion of mine. I don't actively collect old radios (I just have one really, my 1940s Philco), but I'm so glad I bought it. I have it hooked up to an AM transmitter and run 1940's and 1950's music from my phone to the radio every once in a while when the mood strikes me. Also, every year for Pearl Harbor Day and D-Day, and VE and VJ days, I have a tradition of playing the old radio broadcast from those historic days. Nothing like an old BBC radio or CBS radio broadcast to help you remember the sacrifices and the bravery of that generation.

I've thought about buying another vintage radio, but what I going to do with it? Between fossils, ancient coins, and astronomy equipment, I already have enough hobbies and clutter to keep me busy for the rest of my life. So I'm just happy with the one.

 

guys in curious does anyone on here collects ancient humans remains? I mean ancient skeleton mummy etc. I was about to buy a skull from 7th century AD from a dealer but my wife was so against it that she told me if I get it she won't live with me anymore so I decided not to go for it. love to hear other stories on this.

 

Look, unlike wild animals that lived and died without thinking of their own mortality or the things we humans with our superior intelligence concern ourselves with, these humans (and their families) intended to have those bones rest in peace, and I have to respect that. Do you think that human would have wanted his remains disturbed at a later time? No!

Besides, human remains don't interest me as much as creatures that were alive 500 million years ago...and which unlike us humans, were never fully conscious of themselves and never understood the concept of their own mortality (or immortality due to their remains being preserved --fossilized-- by nature). Heck, many of my fossils never had anything we could even remotely call a brain, and much less anything approaching a nervous system.

 

I hear that. Calvert Cliffs in Maryland is on the Chesapeake Bay. When I was a child my dad would take us there to find fossils. Mainly plants and everyday marine life, nothing exciting but to a boy it was great. Then they closed the entire area and built a power plant.
Those little crabs are full grown. The Pea Crab is smaller than a quarter. If I can I will travel to dig.

 

@Sallent said it all. The only thing I agree with is your wife.

 

I remember being in 6th grade and the "other" sixth grade teacher at my grammer school bought a real human mummy. I don't believe you can buy or even import human remains unless they are visual aids for medical classes these days. I don't think any ancient bodies, especially those ritually buried can be relocated to another country.

However I do think there are a few exceptions, for instance the shruken heads of the tribes of the Amazon might be exempt from the scrutiny selective enforcement at least on the side of Peruvian or Ecuadorian customs agents. On the US side, perhaps out of dignity for the deceased, all human remains must be declared for in writing and, I may be mistaken about this, accompanied on airplanes by guardians intending to deliver the remains "to the heirs of
his/her body"

As for me, I haven't any human remains excepting the urns of ashes on my mantle.

 

Sorry to hear about your knee and feet.
I think about that a lot and what I’ll feel like or be a capable of when I’m older.
Crossing my fingers that I’ll still be able to knock down 15-20 miles in a day!

 

I saw a documentary some months back and found out that there are actually crinods that survive to this day in some of the deeper parts of the Caribbean. I'd love to see a live one in its habitat. This guy who studied then had to build his own submarine to view them at their newly adopted depth.

Another one Id like to see are the most ancient survivor "stromatolites" . I think that there are only two places on the planet that can support their colonies, one is a lake in mexico, and the other more cited example is Sharks Bay in Austrailia.

Do you by chance have any fossilized remains of a colony of stromatolites? Id love to see it.