Sometimes I get postings where the person identified it as dinosaur head or a bird head or a crocodile head or a bird head.  In the news one hears of a mummified dinosaur being found.  This is literally more than a million to one find.  You have better odds playing the lottery.  For every mummified dinosaur there are millions of bones found rep…[Read more]

Much of my time, unfortunately is telling people that what they think is a fossil is just a rock.  A key to identifying something as a fossil is that it will have a recognizable pattern or structure.  Rocks can have bumps or holes but there is no pattern to them, just random bumps and holes.  To illustrate this think of finding part of an old ru…[Read more]