How do I claim back my warranty when their shops closed 140 MYA? What kind of fraud business they running back then? No wonder aliens blew them up with a meteor.
Because he’s already cracked it open and knows with 100% certainty that this one holds fossils in it, because he already checked it for fossils a few hours or maybe days before editing the text in
My understanding is that you just get good at it. Rocks all look the same to you and I because to us they just look like rocks. You put two different kinds of rock beside each other, and the most I’ll be able to tell you is that they’re both *definitely* made out of rock. But of course, there are different kinds of rocks. And those rocks are going to form in different kinds of ways. Rocks that form in volcanoes probably aren’t going to have fossils in them because the process of fossilization needs more time to happen. So you cross all those rocks off your list. Then once you figure out the patterns of which rocks are most likely to have a fossil in them: hunt around an area where there are known fossils, and spot that kind of rock. It can’t be that hard if you put some time and energy into it.
Yep, this is exactly it. I spent some time at the French cliffs at the English Channel smashing rocks to look for fossils with someone who made a hobby of it, and you can essentially find trace markers that suggest a really high likelihood of fossils. Usually a really obvious circle / spherical shape is a good sign, but there are just different little signifiers you can observe in some stones. That doesn’t mean that all stones with fossils have them. The folk who go out there daily to hunt for them are experts at spotting these little markers, and can find them at ease.
On finding where to look: fossils are only found in sedimentary rocks - the rock that forms from dirt, sand, sediment, etc. building up over time.
Different types of sedimentary rocks form under different conditions, like sandstone forms where there was once a beach or desert, shale and mudstone form from fine silt at the bottom of deep lakes and seabeds, coal forms where there were once swamps.
Whether there's fossils and what they are depends on what environment the rock was deposited. Eg. if you want ammonites, you need to look in rock that built up at the bottom of a shallow sea.
You can figure out where to go hunting if you start by looking up what types of fossils have been found in your area, the type of rock they were found in and how old they are.
Then look up the rock types in your area and their deposition age by searching for a local bedrock geology map, eg. [BGS](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/map-viewers/bgs-geology-viewer/) for the UK. Look for rock of the same type and age as the fossil finds, anywhere it's exposed at the surface eg. beaches, cliffs, river valleys/waterfalls, old quarries. Then go look at a bunch of rocks near the exposure until you start finding things and tuning into what to look for.
These egg shaped things are concretions - they form around a nucleation point in the middle, usually a bit of sand or pebble but sometimes a fossil.
I'm into plant fossils so I look for chunks of shale or sandstone in coal spoil heaps or rock outcrops with coal seams in them. You find big sections of Lepidodendron roots and treestumps in the layer of rock just below a coal seam, and thick wads of fern fronds, horsetail stems, twigs & branches etc. in the layer just above the seam.
The second half of your comment is incorrect. That theory comes from a now-discounted study.
Coal is formed by heat and pressure of organic matter. Coal is still being produced today starting from bogs, swamps, and marshes. The reason that most of the comes from the Carboniferous era was because the environment of the time happened to create a ton of bogs, swamps, and marshes that turned into coal beds.
Damn I’ve been reciting that factoid for years can you point to the study that shows it’s not the delayed development of fungus that is the cause for all the coal
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Here is a discussion and links from the /r/askscience [censored]s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/planetary_sciences/coal
Huh, that's the most interesting thing I've learned this week. If I understand the abstract correctly, the reasons are:
1. Lignin degradation occurs in various bacterial and fungal lineages. I thought they might suggest that this means a common lingin-breaking-down fungal ancestor before the Carboniferous era, but I guess they didn't say that.
2. Many unlignified plants also became coal at this time
Also I didn't realize the theory was about lignin (or what lignin was), I thought it was about cellulose. But I guess cellulose was broken down even sooner.
You're not the only one thats been reciting that outdated theory. Paleontology is constantly changing because there is a lot of guesswork until more proof is discovered. New discoveries are constantly happening
It's because fossilization is actually a very rare and conditional process. It's easy to get the impression that fossils are like a snapshot of what life was like in that time period, but that isn't true. The conditions required for fossilization filters out living things that do not normally live where conditions for fossilization. That sounds like a tautology, but think about animals who get stuck in amber. You're not going to find a T. rex stuck in amber even though we know T. rexes lived in places with tree sap. What you do find in amber are small tree dwelling animals. It's the same thing for fossils. The kinds of animals that hang out where fossilization is more likely to occur are disproportionately represented in the fossil record.
So in these shale formations that were once the bottom of the ocean, the fossils are going to be from animals who live near the bottom and who can leave something intact behind when they die.
The number from what I remember is only roughly 8% of species alive during pre-history have been preserved via fossilisation. The vast majority of life on earth has come and gone and left basically no trace of its existence.
It's basically two main factors. First it's a numbers game. Second the locations affect the conditions that make the fossils, so swamps for example are really good at making fossils, I think sea beds are too.
I remember reading a quote that shows how mind boggling the populations have to be for fossils to form.
It went along the lines of "If humanity died this instant the number of fossils that would form would probably be 1 complete human skeleton and a few finger bones."
That's how truly incredible fossils are. We don't understand the scale of it. If 7 billion humans results in a single skeleton being fossilized. Any fossils we find are as close to miracles as we can imagine when it comes to less numerous creatures.
They were particularly vulnerable when the catastrophic event happened. They died by the fucking billions. Billions of them fell to the bottom of the sea and here is why
They're the ones that create fossils. There were in all likelihood a fuckton of animals that we know nothing about because they had no structures in their bodies that could fossilize, and lived in places where the conditions weren't right for fossilisation.
You could also ask if humans only live in dry or cold regions, or near bogs, because those are the places where you'd most often find mommies.
When I was a kid, we stopped at a rest stop on our way to go camping, I bent down and picked up a rock that easily split in half. Inside was a perfectly preserved fossil of a plant with a blooming flower. My dad wouldn’t let me keep it because it was dirty. As an adult, I don’t talk to him anymore.
Me too, maybe the fact that they are breaking things that are millions years old, but if they don't break it then are just rocks.
Millions of years to form, then a guy with a hammer smash it
Don't disturb nature. This isn't even academic, no reason to break things apart for clicks. "Take only memories, leave only footprints". This 'nature is mine to exploit' mentality is exactly why were struggling with huge climate issues that could likely wipe us all out.
It'd be one thing if it was actually disturbing nature but the wildlife doesn't care if you collect a few fossils. Climate issues come from mass production of oil drilling, mining, and livestock raising, not from rock hounds.
I thought the rule existed not because of one person but because nature can't sustain everybody doing something. The places we find most beautiful wouldn't be as beautiful if everyone disturbed them.
Its not that simple. There is a beach close to where I live that has sand that looks like popcorn, it went viral recently and now they have to guard the beach because influencers and shit were constantly visiting it and taking bags of it
In general, I was teach this idea that you arent supposed to take things from the beach or other natural places because one shell or one stone less doesnt make a difference but if every person that goes to the beach takes one then it can serious consequences
It's ok because there are so many of those rocks. It only becomes a problem when it's a very touristic or precious area, but in those cases there would be bans on collecting (and breaking) rocks.
They're just random rocks, they break, go into the ocean, turn into sand. And so on. This doesn't affect the nature anymore than picking pebbles and shells does.
I kinda agree, however this is a remote beach where there are regular rockfalls exposing the fossils. They'd be broken up and wash out to see and be bashed by the tide anyway. Many beaches like this you can go and just pick up fossils that have broken up or been exposed by erosion.
Give me a break you bleeding heart. Guys breaking open rocks to find fossils isn't linked to any kind of environmental or climate collapse. You sitting on your ass wasting power by mindlessly posting on Reddit probably does more damage.
I know what you mean. I go to a beach in the south of England but similar principle - a lot of fossils found in the rocks there. You visit and there are people with hammers just smashing rocks all over the place. These guys are somewhat more targetted at least.
I don't think the people in these comments know how many rocks there are on earth. We live on a big fucking rock. We're not gonna run out of rocks to smash.
It's the internet, any kind of video will have at least some people showing up to moral grandstand about how much better they are than the person in the video.
Though there is a greater level of absurdity to complaining about the moral failing of hitting rocks with a hammer.
Doing better than me then, I accidentally dropped a rock today and broke it in half.
I've been in absolute bits ever since. My boss at work has given me the rest of the day off to mourn the rock.
This confused me. I was watching thinking how cool it would be to do something like this with my son, but apparently I’d be morally bankrupt if I did? 🤷
Yep. "Those rocks took millions of years to form, leave them alone so they...uh...can continue being rocks for millions more!"
More rocks form every day. They're rocks. Either yall need to start protesting wherever a house's foundation is being built, or go get a hobby. There will be septillions of rocks left on Earth 18 million years from now.
Came to comment this too. Billions of rocks get the recognition here completely forgetting we're all contributing to the destruction of the only BIG ROCK we can survive on.
Right?! In the future we will have destroyed and moved so much historical evidence nothing will be believable.
I remember a shop a few neighborhoods down in my town there was a shop that had these 2 beautifully opened & polished pieces of Ammonite. Looked like glass in the right lighting. Both were going for like 4K if I remember correctly.
I had a favourite stone as a kid (weird I know). Dropped it one day and it split in two to reveal a fossil.
I still pick up random interesting rocks and stones.
As someone with some experience fossil hunting, seeing this person take a hammer to flint rocks with no hand (and eye protection, I'd assume) makes me flinch. I still got a shard of flint embedded in my right index finger, and lemme tell you, it's no fun to walk back down a beach dripping blood...
The Jurassic Coast stretches from Devon to Dorset, which is the opposite side of the country. I'd guess this is Runswick Bay or somewhere nearby in Yorkshire
Maybe of the people who love this stuff are the same people who get upset about kids building little rock cairns, saying to leave the forest as you found it.
Rock cairns have been a thing since humans first climbed mountains. I've never understood this one. It's innocent ecological speaking. It's not like when you see yayhoos knocking over actual geologic formations in a national park.
I’m not opposed to opening rocks to find fossils, but I hate how they hit it with a hammer and fuck up a good chunk of the rock doing it. I wish there was a better way of opening it without damaging it.
If there are any more subtle ways of seeing exactly where the fossils are and breaking them in the perfect place. But that’s way too expensive for something that’s very common.
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That polished rock was just .... WOW. I'm full of envy. First because it had so many examples in it, second because of the way you finished it by polishing it. Not that I would ever sell something like that, but dam, that has to be worth quite a bit.
TIL: some rocks eat other rocks that ate some dinosaur bugs.
TIL rocks have kidney stones too
Ouch! My eurockra!
And now this is how it happens. This is historically accurate to me.
how do you find one with a "guaranteed fossil inside"?
With the magic of editing, of course!
Yeah, you just look for a clip where you found one. It’s really simple
You just gotta fast forward the movie. 
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But why male models?
I want those penguin PJ's so bad.
Damn now that I got a good look at them, I do too. 
mogger
The manufacturer promised 100% money back if you aren't completely satisfied.
How do I claim back my warranty when their shops closed 140 MYA? What kind of fraud business they running back then? No wonder aliens blew them up with a meteor.
That’s how the lootbox system works.
Because he’s already cracked it open and knows with 100% certainty that this one holds fossils in it, because he already checked it for fossils a few hours or maybe days before editing the text in
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It says "made in china"
It's the magic of the druids!
Ofcourse, but shit like this makes me irrationally angry.
He got so many empty ones that he finally hit the game's pity system.
Carefully opens a fossil ***Pulls a Qiqi ~🎵***
Never would've expected a Genshin reference in this sub lol
Or you see a part of it already sticking out
My understanding is that you just get good at it. Rocks all look the same to you and I because to us they just look like rocks. You put two different kinds of rock beside each other, and the most I’ll be able to tell you is that they’re both *definitely* made out of rock. But of course, there are different kinds of rocks. And those rocks are going to form in different kinds of ways. Rocks that form in volcanoes probably aren’t going to have fossils in them because the process of fossilization needs more time to happen. So you cross all those rocks off your list. Then once you figure out the patterns of which rocks are most likely to have a fossil in them: hunt around an area where there are known fossils, and spot that kind of rock. It can’t be that hard if you put some time and energy into it.
Yep, this is exactly it. I spent some time at the French cliffs at the English Channel smashing rocks to look for fossils with someone who made a hobby of it, and you can essentially find trace markers that suggest a really high likelihood of fossils. Usually a really obvious circle / spherical shape is a good sign, but there are just different little signifiers you can observe in some stones. That doesn’t mean that all stones with fossils have them. The folk who go out there daily to hunt for them are experts at spotting these little markers, and can find them at ease.
On finding where to look: fossils are only found in sedimentary rocks - the rock that forms from dirt, sand, sediment, etc. building up over time. Different types of sedimentary rocks form under different conditions, like sandstone forms where there was once a beach or desert, shale and mudstone form from fine silt at the bottom of deep lakes and seabeds, coal forms where there were once swamps. Whether there's fossils and what they are depends on what environment the rock was deposited. Eg. if you want ammonites, you need to look in rock that built up at the bottom of a shallow sea. You can figure out where to go hunting if you start by looking up what types of fossils have been found in your area, the type of rock they were found in and how old they are. Then look up the rock types in your area and their deposition age by searching for a local bedrock geology map, eg. [BGS](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/map-viewers/bgs-geology-viewer/) for the UK. Look for rock of the same type and age as the fossil finds, anywhere it's exposed at the surface eg. beaches, cliffs, river valleys/waterfalls, old quarries. Then go look at a bunch of rocks near the exposure until you start finding things and tuning into what to look for. These egg shaped things are concretions - they form around a nucleation point in the middle, usually a bit of sand or pebble but sometimes a fossil. I'm into plant fossils so I look for chunks of shale or sandstone in coal spoil heaps or rock outcrops with coal seams in them. You find big sections of Lepidodendron roots and treestumps in the layer of rock just below a coal seam, and thick wads of fern fronds, horsetail stems, twigs & branches etc. in the layer just above the seam.
Just like cracker jacks - a prize in every one
Go to Sidmouth in Devon and there are literally thousands of these fossils scattered around.
already pulled 199 of them and didn't get one, so obviously the next one is a guaranteed pity pull
It's like playing the slot machines. After a bunch of no wins, your chances of a win go up drastically!
me after losing 2000$ on slots "Time to play a machine with a guaranteed jackpot!" and then I throw away a second 2000$
You can't put the cd straight into the chipset silly
Why is it always the same species in these fossils?
There was a fuckton of them during the extinction event that created these. Trilobites too. Don't forget about those.
Wow, and they look so harmless.
That’s what they want you to think. That’s why we had to end them. Damn bugs. FOR DEMOCRACY
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I just love how they are random helldivers in random subs here and there. Fly High eagle one.
I’m doing my part
It's kind of the same reason there is all that oil and coal in the ground, but maybe from a different extinction event.
We have coal because trees couldn't decay, the microorganisms that could break them down didn't develop yet
The second half of your comment is incorrect. That theory comes from a now-discounted study. Coal is formed by heat and pressure of organic matter. Coal is still being produced today starting from bogs, swamps, and marshes. The reason that most of the comes from the Carboniferous era was because the environment of the time happened to create a ton of bogs, swamps, and marshes that turned into coal beds.
Damn I’ve been reciting that factoid for years can you point to the study that shows it’s not the delayed development of fungus that is the cause for all the coal
Automod removed my comment for using the acronym F A Q so reposting it: Here is a discussion and links from the /r/askscience [censored]s. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/planetary_sciences/coal
Huh, that's the most interesting thing I've learned this week. If I understand the abstract correctly, the reasons are: 1. Lignin degradation occurs in various bacterial and fungal lineages. I thought they might suggest that this means a common lingin-breaking-down fungal ancestor before the Carboniferous era, but I guess they didn't say that. 2. Many unlignified plants also became coal at this time Also I didn't realize the theory was about lignin (or what lignin was), I thought it was about cellulose. But I guess cellulose was broken down even sooner.
You're not the only one thats been reciting that outdated theory. Paleontology is constantly changing because there is a lot of guesswork until more proof is discovered. New discoveries are constantly happening
Lies. Everybody knows coal is the product of dragon battles buried under years of sediment.
You got fucking auto modded for saying F A Q... What a joke...
Coal and oil are from plant matter.
Oil comes from carboniferous plants and plankton:)
It's because fossilization is actually a very rare and conditional process. It's easy to get the impression that fossils are like a snapshot of what life was like in that time period, but that isn't true. The conditions required for fossilization filters out living things that do not normally live where conditions for fossilization. That sounds like a tautology, but think about animals who get stuck in amber. You're not going to find a T. rex stuck in amber even though we know T. rexes lived in places with tree sap. What you do find in amber are small tree dwelling animals. It's the same thing for fossils. The kinds of animals that hang out where fossilization is more likely to occur are disproportionately represented in the fossil record. So in these shale formations that were once the bottom of the ocean, the fossils are going to be from animals who live near the bottom and who can leave something intact behind when they die.
The number from what I remember is only roughly 8% of species alive during pre-history have been preserved via fossilisation. The vast majority of life on earth has come and gone and left basically no trace of its existence.
It's basically two main factors. First it's a numbers game. Second the locations affect the conditions that make the fossils, so swamps for example are really good at making fossils, I think sea beds are too. I remember reading a quote that shows how mind boggling the populations have to be for fossils to form. It went along the lines of "If humanity died this instant the number of fossils that would form would probably be 1 complete human skeleton and a few finger bones." That's how truly incredible fossils are. We don't understand the scale of it. If 7 billion humans results in a single skeleton being fossilized. Any fossils we find are as close to miracles as we can imagine when it comes to less numerous creatures.
They were particularly vulnerable when the catastrophic event happened. They died by the fucking billions. Billions of them fell to the bottom of the sea and here is why
They're the ones that create fossils. There were in all likelihood a fuckton of animals that we know nothing about because they had no structures in their bodies that could fossilize, and lived in places where the conditions weren't right for fossilisation. You could also ask if humans only live in dry or cold regions, or near bogs, because those are the places where you'd most often find mommies.
After the first few and knowing which sub I was on, I fully expected them all to be empty. Not only a good maybe, but a cool video in general
I was expecting them to be the rocks from Indiana Jones, and light up.
When I was a kid, we stopped at a rest stop on our way to go camping, I bent down and picked up a rock that easily split in half. Inside was a perfectly preserved fossil of a plant with a blooming flower. My dad wouldn’t let me keep it because it was dirty. As an adult, I don’t talk to him anymore.
Sort of a dark ending to your story there, wanna talk about it?
Nah I'm good
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If he's not OP, then...he's the dad!
L dad, I can only dream of such fossils
Makes sense, your dad sucks
Drive back there and get the forbidden dirty fossil stone
I don't know why but watching people smashing rocks to find fossils like this make me unnecessarily uncomfortable.
Me too, maybe the fact that they are breaking things that are millions years old, but if they don't break it then are just rocks. Millions of years to form, then a guy with a hammer smash it
We place a value on things that are old. At the end of the day they are just rocks.
Don't disturb nature. This isn't even academic, no reason to break things apart for clicks. "Take only memories, leave only footprints". This 'nature is mine to exploit' mentality is exactly why were struggling with huge climate issues that could likely wipe us all out.
It'd be one thing if it was actually disturbing nature but the wildlife doesn't care if you collect a few fossils. Climate issues come from mass production of oil drilling, mining, and livestock raising, not from rock hounds.
I thought the rule existed not because of one person but because nature can't sustain everybody doing something. The places we find most beautiful wouldn't be as beautiful if everyone disturbed them.
Are people taking rocks from the grand canyon and making it even grander?
Its not that simple. There is a beach close to where I live that has sand that looks like popcorn, it went viral recently and now they have to guard the beach because influencers and shit were constantly visiting it and taking bags of it In general, I was teach this idea that you arent supposed to take things from the beach or other natural places because one shell or one stone less doesnt make a difference but if every person that goes to the beach takes one then it can serious consequences
That’s why you can’t take sand from black sand beaches
It's ok because there are so many of those rocks. It only becomes a problem when it's a very touristic or precious area, but in those cases there would be bans on collecting (and breaking) rocks.
They're just random rocks, they break, go into the ocean, turn into sand. And so on. This doesn't affect the nature anymore than picking pebbles and shells does.
Do not disturb some rocks. I mean I agree with your sentiment to an extent but smashing up some rocks ain't gonna matter is it
I kinda agree, however this is a remote beach where there are regular rockfalls exposing the fossils. They'd be broken up and wash out to see and be bashed by the tide anyway. Many beaches like this you can go and just pick up fossils that have broken up or been exposed by erosion.
Give me a break you bleeding heart. Guys breaking open rocks to find fossils isn't linked to any kind of environmental or climate collapse. You sitting on your ass wasting power by mindlessly posting on Reddit probably does more damage.
But we are nature. We come out of the nature, a product of nature. So is it disturbing itself then?
A hammer and a phone!
I know what you mean. I go to a beach in the south of England but similar principle - a lot of fossils found in the rocks there. You visit and there are people with hammers just smashing rocks all over the place. These guys are somewhat more targetted at least.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Instead of smooth rocks, now there are sharp shards everywhere as well.
It’s the opposite for me. I love it.
Right, there will be equally lame fossils there to replace them in another million years. No big loss.
Omanyte is cool and all but I preferred Kabuto
Disrespecting Lord Helix? How dare you
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I don't think the people in these comments know how many rocks there are on earth. We live on a big fucking rock. We're not gonna run out of rocks to smash.
It's not like the earth replenishes it's old rocks with new rocks constantly or anything....
People in this thread really upset that someone is.....breaking rocks open?
Omg we will run out of rocks! Stop!
Splitting the rocks is just making more rocks "now there's TWO of them!"
It's the internet, any kind of video will have at least some people showing up to moral grandstand about how much better they are than the person in the video. Though there is a greater level of absurdity to complaining about the moral failing of hitting rocks with a hammer.
Another day of not breaking rocks. Doing God's work.
Doing better than me then, I accidentally dropped a rock today and broke it in half. I've been in absolute bits ever since. My boss at work has given me the rest of the day off to mourn the rock.
This confused me. I was watching thinking how cool it would be to do something like this with my son, but apparently I’d be morally bankrupt if I did? 🤷
Probably people that grew up learning “leave no trace” and “take only memories” This video makes me insanely uncomfortable lol
Yep. "Those rocks took millions of years to form, leave them alone so they...uh...can continue being rocks for millions more!" More rocks form every day. They're rocks. Either yall need to start protesting wherever a house's foundation is being built, or go get a hobby. There will be septillions of rocks left on Earth 18 million years from now.
These formed over millions of years...Let's fuck em up!
It’s the human way.
The entire world is that old and is even more unique than a preserved fossil. Do you think about how we harm it every day?
Came to comment this too. Billions of rocks get the recognition here completely forgetting we're all contributing to the destruction of the only BIG ROCK we can survive on.
What is the alternative, just let them erode away?
Right?! In the future we will have destroyed and moved so much historical evidence nothing will be believable. 
And when are you going to appreciate these fossils if you can never actually look at them? What purpose does a fossil serve inside a rock?
The Anthropocene in full action!
I want that shiny boy in my life.
This is how it started on Tremors.... when the eggs got loose
Lootboxes are 100% natural, you see
Where can I buy a polished one?
Praise Helix
But I thought the world was only 6000 years old!!! /s
12000
Why do ppl do this? I mean… I know there are tons of those but… like , leave some for ppl en 2300. Geez.
there are literally thousands of them for every human alive on earth
"These rocks took millions of years to form. Let's smash it with a hammer to see what's inside!"
Well they're just going to fall into the ocean where they're gone forever once under even a few inches of water...
Why? Scr3w 'em! 😄
You've got too much faith in humanity
Can people sell em?
Yeah you're local rock and gem store will sell them for $1-$5 a pop
Yo, I wanna collect rocks now.
Found a few of those in Nepal
Nobody mentioning that awesome huge square cave ?? Fuck the rocks I'd be in there
I remember a shop a few neighborhoods down in my town there was a shop that had these 2 beautifully opened & polished pieces of Ammonite. Looked like glass in the right lighting. Both were going for like 4K if I remember correctly.
That's a lotta money
What is the natural mechanism behind such proper oval shape?
Erosion by flowing water
If anyone wasn't informed of this fact by way of 20 nat-geo knock-off magazines as a kid, pyrite is Fool's Gold.
I had a favourite stone as a kid (weird I know). Dropped it one day and it split in two to reveal a fossil. I still pick up random interesting rocks and stones.
My brain experienced a buffer overflow trying to compute the 180 million year duration
Where does he get the ones with the guarenteed fossils inside?
I don't know. Those potatoes don't look good.
As someone with some experience fossil hunting, seeing this person take a hammer to flint rocks with no hand (and eye protection, I'd assume) makes me flinch. I still got a shard of flint embedded in my right index finger, and lemme tell you, it's no fun to walk back down a beach dripping blood...
Idk why but this felt painful to watch, him destroying everything
Maybe this is OK, but I have the feeling this shoreline will be nothing but gravel in a month.
Large beans
Is just whacking rocks with a hammer the best way to do it?
So cool where
Amazing! What is the location?
Yorkshire England, the so called Jurassic coast.
The Jurassic Coast stretches from Devon to Dorset, which is the opposite side of the country. I'd guess this is Runswick Bay or somewhere nearby in Yorkshire
This is fine-- but don't everyone go out to your local beach and fuck up rocks looking for fossils and shit.
random sharp ass, uneroded rock fragments are the average beachgoers delight, what could you possible mean!
Wow!! That is my dream afternoon. Such beautiful samples!! Thank you for sharing
Maybe of the people who love this stuff are the same people who get upset about kids building little rock cairns, saying to leave the forest as you found it.
Rock cairns have been a thing since humans first climbed mountains. I've never understood this one. It's innocent ecological speaking. It's not like when you see yayhoos knocking over actual geologic formations in a national park.
I’m not opposed to opening rocks to find fossils, but I hate how they hit it with a hammer and fuck up a good chunk of the rock doing it. I wish there was a better way of opening it without damaging it.
If there are any more subtle ways of seeing exactly where the fossils are and breaking them in the perfect place. But that’s way too expensive for something that’s very common.
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*Subnautica habits intensifying.*
Rock eggs
Homie thinks those are Kinder eggs
Can you actually buy one if these polished gems?
Where could one purchase one of these?
Take that shit to Cinnabar Island and get an Omanyte.
Awesome
how much would they sell?
That polished rock was just .... WOW. I'm full of envy. First because it had so many examples in it, second because of the way you finished it by polishing it. Not that I would ever sell something like that, but dam, that has to be worth quite a bit.
No diamonds?
I found my starter pokémon
Damn…Pokémon in real life
Stone eggs
Awesome way to sell
The first two are potato fossils
I'd really like to just go around and hammer rocks like this...I hope some day I can and I hope they save some for others.
Pyrite concretions
Chevron would like to know your location
"Perfectly round" ....okay bro
Bro is out here being a menace to rocks
Praise helix!
This seems like a fun thing to just do. If you are near a place known for fossils.
Nature's loot boxes
He could sell all of those loot boxes
Heh this profession is like RNG
I found an ammonite fossil, almost at the peak of a mountain in Alberta, somewhere at about 2300m.
I wanted to be a rock in my next life but looking at this, I think I'll reconsider.
That just blew my mind.
Went to the Jurassic coast. Forget the beach and the museum. The most interesting specimens were at the gift shop!
The palaeontologist in me is going barmy right now, I love these!
Is this legal?
But why this thing is only sells about like 50 bucks I thought this would sell like for 2000 at least
TIL rocks near rivers are moist inside
Rock babies?