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I was wondering what this pointed 'thing' is coming off some of the billions of turtle shell I find. Is it a mating spur? Or maybe just part of the shells substructure? Thanks for the help with this burning question... p.s. supposed to be Turtle Shell MEstery. ha-ha Not Turtle Shell MEstrery... I...
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We get questions like this a lot. This question came by tweet. We turned to Richard Hulbert, Florida Museum's vertebrate paleontology collection manager, for a concise answer. The short version: The shark teeth found in Gainesville creeks are true fossils as that term is used by paleontologis
William J. Tiffany III, Robert E. Pelham, Frank W. Howell, HYPEROSTOSIS IN FLORIDA FOSSIL FISHES, Florida Scientist, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 44-49
I believe what I have here is a partial turtle breastplate I found in pieces at Calvert Cliffs about 5 months ago. Unfortunately, my reassembly did not turn out as well as I had hoped. Looks pretty rough, but it was my first time doing anything like this and I have definitely learned a lot in the...
Found this huge chunk of tortoise shell yesterday while scouting a new gravel bar on the Brazos River near Houston. I've found many fragments before, but never anything this large. What got me even more excited was how it seems that it's a mostly complete bone (except for some wear on one of the ...
