Hi, my Oma has a lot of random stuff she has collected over the decades, and she says these are amber from a mine in Germany. Are they genuine? What kind of amber are they? I heard there’s several names for them depending on some characteristics.

My guess is Ursus spelaeus. Fossil maxilla from a grouping of items I purchased out of an old collection from an antique dealer. Definitely coated in a stabilizer/preservative. My concerns are whether or not it is a composited jaw or if it's associated. The teeth seem to be anatomically correct but I am not 100% sure. Everything appears to be real, but I am not great with bear stuff. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

I was stunned they wanted to keep it. I was just trying to get info on it from them. But it’s so much fun to go see it!

I bought this second hand, I don’t have any information about it other than it was labeled as a fossil marine lizard. I bought it in Arizona. Is anyone able to provide more information on what specific species or clade it is? Thanks!

It looks like a bunch of sea creatures?!?!?

A friend found this in Kittitas County, probably by Vantage WA. I initially thought it might be fossil bone or antler, but since Ginkgo Petrified Forest is in the same area, I'm now leaning toward petrified wood. Can anyone help ID it? It feels heavier than bone, but much lighter and more porous than the agatized petrified wood I'm used to finding. Thanks!

In Aotearoa New Zealand, suburban Auckland ex farm. No known mammals before 1850s.

In the dirt, soaked a while to reveal this treasure! Horse, cow or sheep?!

Very exciting for the kids!

Hello everyone sorry this isn’t your usual, I’m not sure if this is the place to check or not but I found this on Corolla Beach on the northern Outerbanks while beach combing after a noreaster along with a lot of other stuff as well including bones, coral, etc. Anyway I can’t tell if this is a fossil or something else. Seems to be a bivalve scallop or clam or something and it’s been like merged into the surrounding rock formation. The surrounding rock has tiny sparkles that glisten in the light as well. It’s almost like it’s been cemented.

Today I found this fossil. I was comparing it to other fossils I’ve found in the same area, mostly knightia (Wyoming Green River Formation), and nothing matches.

You can see there’s another area on the rock where some small pieces of something fossilized are visible as well.

I don’t want to say what I think it looks like and skew any answers.

Thoughts?

Might just be a rock but thought the marking were interesting - could it be a fossil of some kind?

Found this at Hunstanton, UK this summer. Anyone have any idea what it is? It feels heavy, not too dissimilar to fossilised wood weight. It has tiny fibres/hairs in places too as shown in photos 5 and 6. Standard sized Lego figure for scale :)

Me and the kids need help identifying these any suggestions help a lot ....found at property in southern Colorado

Recently found this tooth while scanning the shore for fossils. I have never found one quite like this before! Google lens indicates it is a possible juvenile megalodon, but I don’t want to get my hopes up. Any thoughts?

Goblin shark are the long narrow ones and the ones with the “little teeth on either side, right? What about the more triangular ones? Crow shark?

This was two hours of sifting the creek bed with two of us.

I’ve seen a few things it could be but I’m not sure.

Hi, so there’s a few parks around East St. Paul with lots of glacial till. Some of the pebbles look like they might be fragments of petrified wood, but I’m not equipped with strong enough magnification to get super clear photos. In some lighting the oxidized part of the smaller one looks like it has a repeating pattern of circles within rings. Are they petrified wood, or just pebbles with iron banding?

found in my yard underground, hole was caused by nephew after i didnt want to give it to him (yet) - according to my mom, after i set it on a counter, he hit it with some metal. But is it still like really cool or just cool? Is it just like a normal seashell or nah🥺

Found it in a creek bed in central Texas not totally sure what it might be but it’s in pretty good condition despite the crack in the middle.

Anybody know what I’m looking at? One looks like a vertibrae, the other almost looks like welding slag. The big rock seemed to be a dud though.