A mammoth discovery: Divers find ice age bones in Florida. The leg bone once belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a short-haired elephant-like creature that wandered Florida during the Pleistocene era — between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago.

WHERE: THE BEST BEACHES IN THE STATE for collecting are on the west coast at Venice Beach and just to the south on Manasota Key. On the east coast some finds occur on Jacksonville Beach and beaches directly north.

The best places in the world to go fossil hunting

• Dorset, UK. The Jurassic Coast is 95 miles of coastline that stretches from East Devon to Dorset, and fossils are kind of a big deal here.
• Maryland, USA.
• Ohio, USA.
• Nangetty, Australia.
• Zigong, China.
• Borre, Denmark.

The fossil record is not only about bones. Geology is the study of the Earth: Rocks, sediments, and the processes that shape mountains, create oceans, and move lands. From this field of study we can improve what we know about a fossil site or group of fossils.

Eupatagus. For most of its geologic history, until about 35 million years ago, Florida was completely submerged under water–which helps to explain why paleontologists have nominated Eupatagus (a type of sea urchin dating to the late Eocene epoch) as the official state fossil.

In Florida it is illegal to collect vertebrate fossils (excluding shark teeth) without a permit from lands owned by the state. State lands include the bottoms of navigable waterways like rivers, lakes and some streams.

Fossil seashells are common on the banks of rivers, and much of the state’s limestone bedrock is made up of the shells of animals that lived in the shallow seas that once covered Florida.

So if you bury a plant leaf under a pile of mud in the backyard, don’t expect a fossil to form in your lifetime! Still, fossils can be found just about anywhere. From the tops of mountains to the depths of the seas, fossils can be found all over Earth.

Fossils are purchased much as one would buy a sculpture or a painting, to decorate homes. Unfortunately, while the value of a rare stamp is really only what someone is willing to pay for it, the rarest natural history objects, such as fossils, are also the ones with the greatest scientific value.

Fossils are physical evidence of preexisting organisms, either plant or animal. Fossils of any kind are useful in “reading the rock record,” meaning they help us decipher the history of the earth. They can help us determine the geologic age and environment (the paleoenvironment) in which they were deposited.

How do Creationary scientists date fossils? They date fossils from the Flood. The age of most fossils is nearly the same.

As such, they have largely been ignored by paleontologists. Many plants have small pieces and parts that can be found as microfossils. Most important of these are pollen and spores which can be very abundant in terrestrial and nearshore marine deposits. Just about any animal with skeletal parts also contributes to the microfossil record.

Regardless, a fossil, no matter how well preserved is a very rare occurrence, as the conditions for its creation must be just right for its permineralization / replacement process to occur. A specimen upon its demise must be immediately buried in order to prevent rapid decomposition.

Fossils of it’s teeth can be found worldwide and are both impressive and terrifying. We have a wide selection of real fossil Megalodon teeth for sale, starting around $10 which make great gifts, to collector quality teeth priced at $1,000+. Article: Megalodon Vs.

MICROFOSSILS ARE the tiny remains of bacteria, protists, fungi, animals, and plants. Microfossils are a heterogeneous bunch of fossil remains studied as a single discipline because rock samples must be processed in certain ways to remove them and microscopes must be used to study them.