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Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They

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I'm back from the rock show! Here are the Cool Rocks I got!
Let's start with the fossils this time.
This year I finally tracked down a Tully Monster, which is my state fossil! He's not a complete fossil, but you can see his eyestalk and the bottom of his proboscis very clearly.
A big chunk of dinosaur bone from Utah! Dino bone is easy to ID due to its distinct pattern, where agate and jasper have filled in the porous structure of the bone.
This is a coprolite, a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop! This one is from Madagascar.
This one is a stromatolite, a rock formation created by a colony of bacteria! Stromatolites are some of the oldest fossils on Earth. In fact, the microbes that make them were likely the very first lifeforms on the planet. And they're still around today, mostly unchanged from their ancient ancestors, and still making rock formations! This little stromatolite came from Madagascar.
A giant chunk of Turritella agate, which I won at the silent auction! Turritella agate is made of a bunch of fossilized snail shells all packed together and filled in with agate. (Despite the name, they're not actually Turritella snails, but rather Elimia tenera.) When cut and polished, it reveals beautiful organic patterns. This stuff comes from Wyoming.
That's all the fossils I brought home! Now on to the minerals!
I was very responsible and didn't come home with a million agates this year, but I couldn't resist this gorgeous rain flower agate! Hailing from Nanijing, China, these agates are naturally polished by the Yangtze River and have a unique, frosted finish.
Another cabochon for my cab collection! This is afghanite, a blue mineral that isn't related to the sodalite family, but likes to grow alongside it.
It fluoresces!
Vesuvianite, a mineral that gets its name because it was first discovered on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius! The dark crystals growing on its surface are garnets. This piece is showing off a great example of vesuvianite's crystal habit and terminations.
A huge zircon crystal! Zircon is the oldest mineral on planet Earth. There's a deposit in Australia which has been radiometric dated to be about 4.4 billion years old! Not this guy, though. This one is from Pakistan.
It fluoresces!
An AMAZING specimen of anatase! It's extremely rare for anatase crystals to grow this large. In fact, the only other anatase crystals I've seen in person had to be viewed under a microscope!
Here's the most expensive piece I came home with - a South African diamond! Can you believe I didn't have a diamond in my collection yet? That problem has been remedied.
It fluoresces!
And finally, my friends and I broke open a few geodes at the geode-cracking booth. I picked out some Trancas geodes from Mexico.
This locale produces weird, wavy, wormy crystals! These formations occur when quartz (in the form of chalcedony or hyalite) grows atop hair-thin, curly crystals of anhydrite.
They fluoresce!
And that was my haul from the rock show!
Two Fossil Scuttle Flies, Two Ants, and a Coprolite In Baltic Amber
Comic by Tom Gauld
Phospraus [+Shiny]
I was talking about Fossil Pokemon like the day after the election and beyond just the interesting implications about them, what would happen if you tried to bring Coprolite to life? And while doing research for that, I came across the Lightening Stone, a strange piece of dinosaur dung that's likely been polished by sellers. So that's what he's based off.

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I HAVE ACQUIRED THE MINERAL
Thanks, @uncle-beanbag-gaming!
what would be your take on a coprolite? and would they be embarrassed of their origins lol
I don't see why they would. Gems don't leave any rests behind and don't generally know what other living organisms are.
Gem Society doesn't treat pearls right (as they come from another gem) so maybe gems that are nature related (Amber, Petrified Wood...) wouldn't be treated equally and in that group, Coprolite would enter.
And once Era 3 came and gems do know about what the concept of poop is... that depends on the gem on how they start seeing Coprolite...
TUMBLR, I HAVE AN IDEA MOST INGENIOUS!
Okay so basically, image the Ballad of Big Al but like it was a photo album of snapshots???
Who should be the main star??? (half 1)
Yutyrannus
Balaur
Rugops
Carnotaurus
Rajasaurus
Coelophysis
Torvosaurus
Berthasaurus
Deltadromeus
Austroraptor
2nd half \/
Who Should be the Main Star? Half 2 Eustreptospondylus Neovenator Shuvuuia Megapnosaurus Erlikosaurus Cryolophosaurus Masiakasaurus Concaven