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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2622453, member: 76194"][USER=72818]@Mikey Zee[/USER]  I hate you. You mentioned fossils, which got my son interested and got me to rekindle my long lost love of fossil collecting, and a few "Papa, buy me this, buy me that!" later, not only did I get that trilobite, but now also this: Extinct Rugose coral species (horn coral) 385,000,000 years old [ATTACH=full]575617[/ATTACH] Extinct species of Paraspirifer brachiopod from the Devonian circa 380,000,000 years old. This one is interesting in that the replacement mineral that created the fossil is pyrite (ie. fool's gold) [ATTACH=full]575618[/ATTACH] And to recap, the damage from last night: Platyscutellum trilobite, Middle Devonian circa 382,000,000 years old [ATTACH=full]575630[/ATTACH] These animals all lived and died within 1,500 miles of each other (plate tectonics moved them further apart over the years), and practically around the same geological time scale (Middle Devonian), so it's an extremely likely possibility that these species interacted  with each other in the same environment while they were alive. I don't know about you guys, but these are cooler than dinosaur bones. I plan to obtain some more Devonian era fossils over the next few months for our Father/son learning adventures, and eventually move to carboniferous era fossils (insects/plants/early land animals/early sharks and other primitive fish).[/QUOTE]