when i lived in my other house we would always get a bunch of rocks in our front yard and sometimes on our drivway because of landscaping. when the rocks would come they were usually fossils and i found one that looked like a honey-comb and a beehive!!!!!!!! It was really cool!
MY FOSSIL STORY...
this one time i was digging a hole in my backyard, i wanted to see wat i could find. i didnt find any animal parts or mygreat uncle billy bob. i did however find, a very interesante rock. i whacked it wit a hammer for a few hours. it wouldn't crack, so i started crying ans decided to throw it out of my window. no, i did not crush my dog wit that rock, i did however manage to break it open. no, gold did not come out, nor animals. but a most amazing sight met my lil -eyes. it was one of those rocks with purple crystal-y things in them. i was like O.M.G!!!
It was average.Not what I'd say super great.Now if... it was a huge giant fossils that would have cool.I'm not saying finding fossils isn't cool I'm just saying finding big fossils would have cooler.
I went fossil hunting with my class n we had lots of fun there were lots of fossils too!there was also a place where water ran down the rocks n we got wet
when i went looking for rock's whit me famile i found a lot of fules gold. i found a rock that was half gray and half white. i found a raelly small focile up north by Daluth
I think that if we don't look at the fossils we won't learn about the environment around us! I think that when we explore rocks and fossils we explore our environment and our culture and ourselves!!!!!
even if people were more "respectfull" to the enviorment the world would still be the same. no matter what you do we are going to need the things we make be that paper gas or food.
thtz not true. if more people cared about our planet it wood be so much different. the roads wouldbe clean andmsafe. the world would last longer for being healthy. plus the air would be cleaner witch wood be better for plants and animals. tdid you no tht only 2.8% of the earths water is fresh? its true. if we start being"respectful" to the earth then we will have more fresh water and cleaner air and nice soil. so things would be a whole lot diffrent!!!!!!!!
Once I found a fossilized fish that seemed to have appendages (other than fins) in, I think it was Duluth, well it was in Northern Minnesota, near a rocky cliff that over-looked a lake. It had one of those over-hanging arms that gave a small tunnel in which we could walk.
I went paintballing in the woods and i found six fossils and took them to my class and got extra credit so if you found some fossils take them to school and you might get some extra credit. Happy digging!
i just find cool rocks i don't search for them a lot but when i find them i like them. I have about 10 arrowheads and a lot of other rocks. One of the looks like a half a moon smiling it is really cool.
One day I was in Arizona and I found a really cool rock. It looked like a oreo cookie. It was a oval shaped black rock with a white line in the middle of it.
i was once on a tour with my family and we whent down to the beach and looked for rocks with fossils in it. i found a couple of rocks in them. it was a whole lot of fun, my dad didn't find any rocks though! hehehehehe
I found some very interesting rock samples on the shores of Lake Supierior near Grand Marais. The rocks are smooth and has red, white, or blue crystals in them that resemble large grains of rice. They are very unique indeed
We recently went to see the banded iron formation in northern Minnesota. As we stood there, gazing at it, a wolf walked by down the road-in boad daylight! It was uber cool.
I found a 2-4 pound unformed tube agate that i almost didnt take from the pit because i didnt know what it was at first but i took it anways and brought it to agate days and one table said it was the best thing they seen at agate days and offered me 400 dollars for it!
One time i found these really cool rocks at a football game at my town. Two were red and the rest were silver. They were SO COOL! I think everyone should be able to experience rock hunting as I did. Good luck to all you ROCK HUNTERS!
I go to Duluth a lot and they have tons of cool rocks.We go on walks and little bay, but there are hauge rocks there.I find tons of granit.Some of the rocks I find is sandstone,bluerite,tanand purple querts.Bye!
THIS ONE TIME I WAS UP AT MY CAMPER AND WE WERE HAVING A SCHOOLS OUT PARTY AND WE HAD A SCAVENGER HUNT AND WE HAD TO FING ALL THESE DIFFERENT ROCKS AND WE GOT LOST TRYING TO FIND THEM AND WHEN WE GOT BACK WE WERE IN 1ST PLACE CUZ NO ONE ELSE WHO FOUND ALL THE RIGHT ROCKS AND OTHER NATURE STUFF!!!! yay!!!!
i've always collect many different interesting rocks along and in lake superiour, my mother also did it when she was younger and we have cans full of interesting looking rocks.
I once went rock climing with my dad. we were in california. it was really cold and we had to use crampons, which i remember because they have a funny name
This Museum is the best. It fills our minds with fun and interesting facts about allsorts of things! There are all sorts of neat exibits and things to look at. This is always cool for me to come here and learn more then I already knew. It is so awsome!!!!!!!!
in 2006 my family went up to chaska to search for rocks, climb rocks, and just to plain old have fun. we got to climb rocks for hours and i even found a perfectly heart shaped rock. it was so cool that when i found it i yelled '' hey mom, dad i found a cool rock. 'come here! and even until this day i have this rock and still hold on to it today. i love searching for rocks and climbing them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking when I was in the Science Museum how weird it would be to have my body in Body Worlds and everyone see it. But I guess it would not matter because I would not know. Because I would be dead.
to museum
I thought this museum was really disgusting and wroung !!!!! The evendence that they are teaching everyone is fake and wroung!!!! they should post all the evendince not only evendence that supports there thery they shold tell all the facts..not only theroys about evoluion......
Soo next time u make a musuem it should be about technoloy and carrer choices for young and how u can change the future.
Mad and Angry ought to learn to spell, and perhaps should give some thought to things before spouting off about that which she knows little of. If you don't care for science, why did you come?
Well, I don't mind bad spelling so much but the museum isn't going to change it's focus away from accepted science. While we want to welcome everyone to learn about science we aren't going to compromise our message based on differing beleifs that are not supported by evidence.
Evolution is on of the key pillars on which our understanding of biology is based and therefore and important aspect of our museum. Read more in the Science Museum's official position on evolution.
I thought I found a piece of coal on a trail in the woods, once. It was all black and had rough spots all over. A lot of parts on it were shiny, but not all of it .
Went rock hunting around I-35 and several different ancient aquatic shell and animal fossils. Real good place to observe the many bands in the rock and see the color difference.
State parks, especially the great ones in MN, are great places to look for rocks, especially around the places where not many people hike. Gooseberry falls and and the Superior shore are amazing displays of different types of rock.
When I wasabout 5 or six I went to the brick yards with my Dad. It was so awsome . I found 106 FOSSILS. For the hundreth day of school and Monroe elmentry school I brought all my Fossils
well when i used to go to mounds park elemetary we allways used to have a parade our whole school would walk up to mounds park and play there but when i got in 6th grade me and my friends went across the street and went to see the rocks but the were big we were to scared to go down it because we thought we would get hurt but ne ways you should visit this spot its really interesting!!!!!!Peace out ♥ BrItTaNy
I HAVE COLLECTED ROCKS FROM LAKE SUPERIOR AND EVERY ALL OVER THE NORTH SHORE. I hAve sandstone, basalt, and many others. I enjoy collecting rocks. Rocks help me understand how the earth was formed.
i found this multicolored rock when i was searching in my lake for my swim trunks. it was like the coolest rock i've ever seen in my entire life. It was colors of a sunset and made me feel deep emotions when i found it buryed underneath the sand in my lake. i found my trunks too..
I was in northern Minnesota hunting rocks on the Iron Range. It had been weeks, and no game to be found. Watching rocks from my stand was getting dull, believe it or not. I couldn't. Just then, a fourteen point fairly sized specimen of granite came my way. This was it: the culmination of my efforts were finally coming around. I aimed my 12 gauge shot gun directly into the granite's sparkly facade. Just then it saw me! I managed to knick it's side, but it tumbled away. Luckily I was able to follow its tracks into the woods and finish the job. Three days later I came home with the granite fully gutted and ready to serve. It was my best rock hunting experience that I can remember.
Funny funny, but I wouldn't like to see what taking a shotgun to a granite face would do. Very unsafe for you and your hunting companions. Probably best to leave the shotgun at home when foraging for rocks. But I like this cute story.
Amazingly enough, it is legal to sell fossils to a science museum, as long as the fossils that you want to sell were legally collected. In the United States this means that they have to come from private property, with permission from the owner. Fossils found on public lands (like in State Parks, or on Bureau of Land Management or State lands) cannot be bought and sold at all, and can't even be collected without a special permit. The problem with a commercial collecting operation (where people are buying and selling fossils) is that selling them often removes them from potential study or exhibition. That is the primary reason that museums will occasionally buy important fossils (like Sue, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago bought from Sotheby's) - it is, at times, the only way to keep really important, unique specimens available to the public, and to the research community.
Thanks for the great question!
Kristi Curry Rogers, Ph. D.
Curator of Paleontology
Science Museum of Minnesota
I was on vacation and the hotel I stayed at had a rock-hounding trip to a loacal beach on Lake Superior and Iwent and there were really a lot of colorful and interesing rocks.
I LIVE IN DULUTH,AND I GO TO DIFFERENT BEACHES AND LAKES,TO FIND REALLY COOL ROCKS AND AGATES. SOMETIMES I FIND BORING ROCKS AND I PAINT THEM TO MAKE THEM LOOK PRETTY.
I HAVE A CEMENT AND BRICK COLLECTION IN MY CLUBHOUSE! THEN SOMEONE WENT AND MESSED WITH IT SO NOW I HAVE LIKE HALF OF WHAT I USED TO. BUT I STILL HAVE A LOT!
Last year we went on a filedtrip to Lilydale to look at fossils in the rocks there. I didn't find any, but some kids found a lot. It was pretty cool, too. =]
in 6th grade i went to wolf ridge. in one class we had to look for rocks and i found 9 different rocks, 3 of them the teacher had not seen there before. everyone else got 6 rocks at the most.
okay, well i am from Texas and i love rocks. the Minnesota state rock is really cool. I have never seen one like it.
It is one of my favorites so far!
GO DALLAS STARS:]
I went up to Duluth many times in my life and I spend days on the beach walking up and down collecting rocks. The last time I went was with my second and third cousins and we spent all of the 3 or 4 days up there at a campground across the road from Lake Superior and at least 5 times a day we would go to the rocky beach and rock hunt. I found some really good treasures and displayed them on my windowsill when I got home. My favorites were the ones that sparkled when they were wet and in the sun. I can't wait till the next time I go up there cuz I wanna find a superior agate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Roxy Cowgirl ( or barbie if you ask my classmates )
I live in the country so my neighbors are far away compared to living in a rural community. That's good for them cuz sometimes they get downwind of our cattle barn but anyways I was walking to the neighbors and I found an arrowhead like the ones that indians used and stuff. It was really coolio. I was gunna tie it on a stick like a spear but instead my 2 younger sisters got ahold of it and I have no clu where it went. i was bummed. BUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the grannite that we have in our state. Its cool. I like eggits too, even though we don't have many around here. I love minnestoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my grandparents have a cottage at the lake, and my mom takes long walks on the beach and picks up all kinds of rocks and stones that we use for all kinds of crafts! i am so glad i can be a part of it.
when me and my sister were at our old house we thought that we found a huge t rex bone by our house and we worked on it forever but then we found out it was only a piece of concrete lol
i have been doing rocks in 3rd grade and if you cant break it into any more pieces it is a mineral.some rocks have soe color on it.some rocks can be small and some big it can still look really cool still. if you use a magafinglass for small pieces. when you look so close at it.it will look so cool i did it in 3rd grade.also it might look like something you seen before or it might not you never know.it depends what it is .good bye
hey wats up i was at a feild trip in north dakota and i fell in a pile of rocks an then wen they found me they notice that was a really expencive rock then i got a peice but i lost it in my pocket
FOR SCHOOL WE WENT TO A PLACE AND WE FOUND AN AWSOME BONE THAT LOOKED LIKE A CHERRIO. WE GOT TO BRING THE BONES WE FOUND HOME WITH US! I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS A COOL IDEA. DON'T YOU.
MY FAMILY AND I WENT TO HIDDEN FALLS AND I CLIMBED UP IT IT WAS SO MUCH FUN I ACUTUALLY GOT TO TOUCH THE FALLS IT WAS ALOT OF FUN (IF I DIDENT MENTION THAT ALREADY.)
this one time i was digging in my backyard for fossils and i found the cutest little mole, i named the mole molesworth and we got to know each other very well. well as most people know whenever there is a mole, there's usually a fossil somewhere nearby, so i kept digging. me and molesworth discovered the magical underground land of fancypants. in fancypants land you can do whatever you want all the
i went to the brick yards whith my school this year and we saw huge fociles that was cool
that did look cool
I would think it was cool to but don't you mean fossils ?
when i lived in my other house we would always get a bunch of rocks in our front yard and sometimes on our drivway because of landscaping. when the rocks would come they were usually fossils and i found one that looked like a honey-comb and a beehive!!!!!!!! It was really cool!
My uncle found a T- Rex Fossil
WOW! THAT IS AMAZING! I HOPE IT NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!
THAT IS SO COOL
Near the banks of the Mississippi (or other rivers) are good places to find fossils.
I wants went to fosle beach in Virgina there was fosles every were I went . It was cool
to the persom who said they found alot of fossels down on a beach in virginia. i just wanted to say same here
My grade went on a field trip to a digging place in winnipeg we found fossils and it was cool
That is awsome! You are so lucky that you're school does that for feild trips!
THIS ONE TIME AT BAND CAMP..I FOUND A FOSSIL
WOW I wish i dould have seen that! your so lucky -_-
MY FOSSIL STORY...
this one time i was digging a hole in my backyard, i wanted to see wat i could find. i didnt find any animal parts or mygreat uncle billy bob. i did however find, a very interesante rock. i whacked it wit a hammer for a few hours. it wouldn't crack, so i started crying ans decided to throw it out of my window. no, i did not crush my dog wit that rock, i did however manage to break it open. no, gold did not come out, nor animals. but a most amazing sight met my lil -eyes. it was one of those rocks with purple crystal-y things in them. i was like O.M.G!!!
Wow! That's really cool. I've never been rock hunting with a group. But in NY there's tons of cool rocks to see and find.
kool
It was average.Not what I'd say super great.Now if... it was a huge giant fossils that would have cool.I'm not saying finding fossils isn't cool I'm just saying finding big fossils would have cooler.
I went fossil hunting with my class n we had lots of fun there were lots of fossils too!there was also a place where water ran down the rocks n we got wet
wow that sounds soooooo cool! How big were the fociles?
when i went looking for rock's whit me famile i found a lot of fules gold. i found a rock that was half gray and half white. i found a raelly small focile up north by Daluth
i think people should be more respectful to the envaierment.and should learn about us and our caulture!
I think that if we don't look at the fossils we won't learn about the environment around us! I think that when we explore rocks and fossils we explore our environment and our culture and ourselves!!!!!
I'm with you it's sad how people can destroy places and vandilise them
even if people were more "respectfull" to the enviorment the world would still be the same. no matter what you do we are going to need the things we make be that paper gas or food.
thtz not true. if more people cared about our planet it wood be so much different. the roads wouldbe clean andmsafe. the world would last longer for being healthy. plus the air would be cleaner witch wood be better for plants and animals. tdid you no tht only 2.8% of the earths water is fresh? its true. if we start being"respectful" to the earth then we will have more fresh water and cleaner air and nice soil. so things would be a whole lot diffrent!!!!!!!!
ElLeViS
YEa i think people should take care ofit more!!!
Once I found a fossilized fish that seemed to have appendages (other than fins) in, I think it was Duluth, well it was in Northern Minnesota, near a rocky cliff that over-looked a lake. It had one of those over-hanging arms that gave a small tunnel in which we could walk.
I went paintballing in the woods and i found six fossils and took them to my class and got extra credit so if you found some fossils take them to school and you might get some extra credit. Happy digging!
Six fossils, eh?
That's amazing.
I myself haven't found any fossils, but I'd love to!
Anyway, maybe I should paintball in the woods so I find some fossils!
:)
I think people should hunt for rocks because they can learn different kind of rocks.
i just find cool rocks i don't search for them a lot but when i find them i like them. I have about 10 arrowheads and a lot of other rocks. One of the looks like a half a moon smiling it is really cool.
by,Dane
The badlands in north and south dakota. They are beautiful and you would enjoy them alot!
One day I was in Arizona and I found a really cool rock. It looked like a oreo cookie. It was a oval shaped black rock with a white line in the middle of it.
-Kyle Bailey,2006
I like to look for rocks in my back yard.... I found a big shiny one.
Colton
I Whent rock climbing one summer it was lots of fun! I think places like that should be saved.
i was once on a tour with my family and we whent down to the beach and looked for rocks with fossils in it. i found a couple of rocks in them. it was a whole lot of fun, my dad didn't find any rocks though! hehehehehe
I found some very interesting rock samples on the shores of Lake Supierior near Grand Marais. The rocks are smooth and has red, white, or blue crystals in them that resemble large grains of rice. They are very unique indeed
We recently went to see the banded iron formation in northern Minnesota. As we stood there, gazing at it, a wolf walked by down the road-in boad daylight! It was uber cool.
i found an agate on the side of the road!
I was walking on the shore of Lake Superior and we found a 2.6 pound Agate and while walking the agate broke and it was granite IT STUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found a 2-4 pound unformed tube agate that i almost didnt take from the pit because i didnt know what it was at first but i took it anways and brought it to agate days and one table said it was the best thing they seen at agate days and offered me 400 dollars for it!
sometime back in the 90s i found a really nice piece of tompsonite which i had made into a necklace. found on the shore of lake superior.
One time i found these really cool rocks at a football game at my town. Two were red and the rest were silver. They were SO COOL! I think everyone should be able to experience rock hunting as I did. Good luck to all you ROCK HUNTERS!
I love to collect rocks there are so many different kinds of rocks
i know right
I go to Duluth a lot and they have tons of cool rocks.We go on walks and little bay, but there are hauge rocks there.I find tons of granit.Some of the rocks I find is sandstone,bluerite,tanand purple querts.Bye!
I was on vacation and found a large cliff with Native American paintings on the rock.
I WENT AND SAW MANY ROCKS AT THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL Park AND IT WAS REALLY COOL! I LEARNED A LOT AND IT WAS FUN!
I went in the forest in my backyard and I found a fossil of a fish.
i went to white water to find them when i was digging i found a shark toooth.
kooleo i go there every year
THIS ONE TIME I WAS UP AT MY CAMPER AND WE WERE HAVING A SCHOOLS OUT PARTY AND WE HAD A SCAVENGER HUNT AND WE HAD TO FING ALL THESE DIFFERENT ROCKS AND WE GOT LOST TRYING TO FIND THEM AND WHEN WE GOT BACK WE WERE IN 1ST PLACE CUZ NO ONE ELSE WHO FOUND ALL THE RIGHT ROCKS AND OTHER NATURE STUFF!!!! yay!!!!
at my friends house we found rocks from lake Agacy. they where clear and you could scach them easly and wash off the scrach.
One time I found this really cool looking rock and my teacher wanted to keep it and now its on her top shelf
Go to South Dakota And look in caves its relly cool.
i've always collect many different interesting rocks along and in lake superiour, my mother also did it when she was younger and we have cans full of interesting looking rocks.
I once went rock climing with my dad. we were in california. it was really cold and we had to use crampons, which i remember because they have a funny name
donnie mcarthur
One time I found an agate in my shoe. I showed it to my momie. she was so proud, and told me not to drag dirt into the house
love,
SILVIE
That is very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Museum is the best. It fills our minds with fun and interesting facts about allsorts of things! There are all sorts of neat exibits and things to look at. This is always cool for me to come here and learn more then I already knew. It is so awsome!!!!!!!!
P.S. Good luck in the future with awsome Museum!
in 2005 my family went to yellowstone national park and we had lots of fun.
in 2006 my family went up to chaska to search for rocks, climb rocks, and just to plain old have fun. we got to climb rocks for hours and i even found a perfectly heart shaped rock. it was so cool that when i found it i yelled '' hey mom, dad i found a cool rock. 'come here! and even until this day i have this rock and still hold on to it today. i love searching for rocks and climbing them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always loved rocks. I use them as tools for massage...
My fossil story: My school goes to the brickyards every year. I recently went and found tons of neat fossils! Wow!
My school goes to a rock museum every year, and we also go to a brickyard and find lots of awesome rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have lots of cool rocks on the shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin.
I was thinking when I was in the Science Museum how weird it would be to have my body in Body Worlds and everyone see it. But I guess it would not matter because I would not know. Because I would be dead.
wow i had an experience of a lifetime up on those rocky mountains whoa scary scary don't go on them alone
to museum
I thought this museum was really disgusting and wroung !!!!! The evendence that they are teaching everyone is fake and wroung!!!! they should post all the evendince not only evendence that supports there thery they shold tell all the facts..not only theroys about evoluion......
Soo next time u make a musuem it should be about technoloy and carrer choices for young and how u can change the future.
Mad and Angry ought to learn to spell, and perhaps should give some thought to things before spouting off about that which she knows little of. If you don't care for science, why did you come?
Well, I don't mind bad spelling so much but the museum isn't going to change it's focus away from accepted science. While we want to welcome everyone to learn about science we aren't going to compromise our message based on differing beleifs that are not supported by evidence.
Evolution is on of the key pillars on which our understanding of biology is based and therefore and important aspect of our museum. Read more in the Science Museum's official position on evolution.
how rude
I thought I found a piece of coal on a trail in the woods, once. It was all black and had rough spots all over. A lot of parts on it were shiny, but not all of it .
i like the minerals inside the rocks and how they are all shiny
Minerals are shiny because of luster. Luster is how rocks shine against the sun.
one time I found a fossilized leaf inside a rock. my brother found it.
Went rock hunting around I-35 and several different ancient aquatic shell and animal fossils. Real good place to observe the many bands in the rock and see the color difference.
"wow i didn't know that the MT.Range of the great mountain!"
State parks, especially the great ones in MN, are great places to look for rocks, especially around the places where not many people hike. Gooseberry falls and and the Superior shore are amazing displays of different types of rock.
MY ROCK HUNTING SKILLS HELPED ME FIND AN ARROWHEAD MADE BY A ROCK MADE OF OBSIDEAN.
I think so 2. u r so right. Dinosaur fossils are aaawwwwwweeeeeessssooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I wasabout 5 or six I went to the brick yards with my Dad. It was so awsome . I found 106 FOSSILS. For the hundreth day of school and Monroe elmentry school I brought all my Fossils
well when i used to go to mounds park elemetary we allways used to have a parade our whole school would walk up to mounds park and play there but when i got in 6th grade me and my friends went across the street and went to see the rocks but the were big we were to scared to go down it because we thought we would get hurt but ne ways you should visit this spot its really interesting!!!!!!Peace out ♥ BrItTaNy
I think when you go rock hunting you should pick your favorit rocks.
It was very good.It was lots of fun.I found a pretty rock,with the colors. It was red blue and pink.
I HAVE COLLECTED ROCKS FROM LAKE SUPERIOR AND EVERY ALL OVER THE NORTH SHORE. I hAve sandstone, basalt, and many others. I enjoy collecting rocks. Rocks help me understand how the earth was formed.
i found this multicolored rock when i was searching in my lake for my swim trunks. it was like the coolest rock i've ever seen in my entire life. It was colors of a sunset and made me feel deep emotions when i found it buryed underneath the sand in my lake. i found my trunks too..
I found what looked like the spine off of a spinosaurus aegypticus and I brought it in to the field museum in chicago and they said I was right.
My grandparents have a dirt road that my cousin and I like to find agets on
I was in northern Minnesota hunting rocks on the Iron Range. It had been weeks, and no game to be found. Watching rocks from my stand was getting dull, believe it or not. I couldn't. Just then, a fourteen point fairly sized specimen of granite came my way. This was it: the culmination of my efforts were finally coming around. I aimed my 12 gauge shot gun directly into the granite's sparkly facade. Just then it saw me! I managed to knick it's side, but it tumbled away. Luckily I was able to follow its tracks into the woods and finish the job. Three days later I came home with the granite fully gutted and ready to serve. It was my best rock hunting experience that I can remember.
Funny funny, but I wouldn't like to see what taking a shotgun to a granite face would do. Very unsafe for you and your hunting companions. Probably best to leave the shotgun at home when foraging for rocks. But I like this cute story.
I LOVE ROCKS,I EVEN COLLECT ROCKS.
i go hunting for rocks and i love collecting rocks it is so fun to find out what different kinds of rocks you can find.
I WENT TO THE BLACK HILLS AND MY BROTHER FOUND A REALY COOL FOSIL. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT WE THINK IT IS A BIRD FOSIL.
COOL
I bet that its not a bird fossil. it was probably just some chicken bones that someone just left and littered.
one time i went to the black hills and i was playing in the sand and found some bones. maybe they were fossils....i i dont know but i kept it.
how can you not know if its a fossil or not? its just a rock but of has imprints then it prob a fossil. smart one
Can you sell fossils to a science museum?
Amazingly enough, it is legal to sell fossils to a science museum, as long as the fossils that you want to sell were legally collected. In the United States this means that they have to come from private property, with permission from the owner. Fossils found on public lands (like in State Parks, or on Bureau of Land Management or State lands) cannot be bought and sold at all, and can't even be collected without a special permit. The problem with a commercial collecting operation (where people are buying and selling fossils) is that selling them often removes them from potential study or exhibition. That is the primary reason that museums will occasionally buy important fossils (like Sue, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago bought from Sotheby's) - it is, at times, the only way to keep really important, unique specimens available to the public, and to the research community.
Thanks for the great question!
Kristi Curry Rogers, Ph. D.
Curator of Paleontology
Science Museum of Minnesota
I've never found a rock. Only at rock stores.
I was on vacation and the hotel I stayed at had a rock-hounding trip to a loacal beach on Lake Superior and Iwent and there were really a lot of colorful and interesing rocks.
I find rocks all around my yard and try to see where they came from.
There was once a great episode on the Outer Limits about these talking rocks which really were alien beings.
Rocks are cool, and my dad has been to a mountain!Also my best friend loves rocks and so do I.
well I mostly find good rocks on my driveway(I have arack driveway) there really colerful and have alot of diferrent shapes.
I LIVE IN DULUTH,AND I GO TO DIFFERENT BEACHES AND LAKES,TO FIND REALLY COOL ROCKS AND AGATES. SOMETIMES I FIND BORING ROCKS AND I PAINT THEM TO MAKE THEM LOOK PRETTY.
I went rock hunting about 2 years ago with my cousin, my aunt, and my aunt's 2 friends. It was pretty cool.
I HAVE A CEMENT AND BRICK COLLECTION IN MY CLUBHOUSE! THEN SOMEONE WENT AND MESSED WITH IT SO NOW I HAVE LIKE HALF OF WHAT I USED TO. BUT I STILL HAVE A LOT!
i studied rocks in 2nd grade
I like to make a collection of rocks from Lake Gitchigumee. I am 4 years old.
HI, I LIKE TO SEARCH FOR ROCKS 2. HAVE FUN ROCK SEARCHING! I KNOW I WILL
I have seen some dried red wood rocks.Have you seen some? I am 10 years old.
I found a fossil in the South Dakota Badlands on our camping trip one summer. I put it into our car but when we got home I couldn't find it . : (
Thats really sad that you couldn't find it, but I bet you were pretty proud when you found it!?!
Last year we went on a filedtrip to Lilydale to look at fossils in the rocks there. I didn't find any, but some kids found a lot. It was pretty cool, too. =]
in 6th grade i went to wolf ridge. in one class we had to look for rocks and i found 9 different rocks, 3 of them the teacher had not seen there before. everyone else got 6 rocks at the most.
Fossils are what tells us about the past. It's how we found out who evolved from what. It's made knowledge that much greater
me and my friend like looking at rocks and one day i found a fossil and it was so cool!!!!!
Good luck to fossil hunters every where.
some of the bones on dinosaurs here were found by my great grandpa. and this year i went fossil finding with my mom it was cool
my dad and i went to the grand canyon ans saw lots of new rocks that we havent seen before.It was awsome!!!!!!!!
i have seen pretty rocks at lake kabetogama there is cool rocks!!
it is cool
okay, well i am from Texas and i love rocks. the Minnesota state rock is really cool. I have never seen one like it.
It is one of my favorites so far!
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I collect rocks and have a rock polisher. I have a fossil rock that is over 145 million years old! Sa-Weet.
i DOVE UP TO DULUTH... THE ROCKS WERE SO COOL
Now I want to drive down Summit and see the houses that you showed me!!!
I went to wolf ridge by dulth and i saw really cool rock formations and it just reminded me how cool rocks are.
i think that after the movie that i just saw, people should really take care of the enviroment!
I went up to Duluth many times in my life and I spend days on the beach walking up and down collecting rocks. The last time I went was with my second and third cousins and we spent all of the 3 or 4 days up there at a campground across the road from Lake Superior and at least 5 times a day we would go to the rocky beach and rock hunt. I found some really good treasures and displayed them on my windowsill when I got home. My favorites were the ones that sparkled when they were wet and in the sun. I can't wait till the next time I go up there cuz I wanna find a superior agate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Roxy Cowgirl ( or barbie if you ask my classmates )
I live in the country so my neighbors are far away compared to living in a rural community. That's good for them cuz sometimes they get downwind of our cattle barn but anyways I was walking to the neighbors and I found an arrowhead like the ones that indians used and stuff. It was really coolio. I was gunna tie it on a stick like a spear but instead my 2 younger sisters got ahold of it and I have no clu where it went. i was bummed. BUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the grannite that we have in our state. Its cool. I like eggits too, even though we don't have many around here. I love minnestoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my grandparents have a cottage at the lake, and my mom takes long walks on the beach and picks up all kinds of rocks and stones that we use for all kinds of crafts! i am so glad i can be a part of it.
When my family went to Lake Superior, we tried to find agates - it's A LOT harder than we thought!
i think it's fun!
i love rock hunting
i went fossil hunting last year found really cool fosils but got dirty
when me and my sister were at our old house we thought that we found a huge t rex bone by our house and we worked on it forever but then we found out it was only a piece of concrete lol
When I was 10 I went to a campsite in Wisconsin with my cousin and we found some really cool rocks. We painted them and named them.
I really like rock exhibits and archaeologists and dinosaurs and someday I want to be an archaeologist. I even have a rock collection at home.
i have been doing rocks in 3rd grade and if you cant break it into any more pieces it is a mineral.some rocks have soe color on it.some rocks can be small and some big it can still look really cool still. if you use a magafinglass for small pieces. when you look so close at it.it will look so cool i did it in 3rd grade.also it might look like something you seen before or it might not you never know.it depends what it is .good bye
i found ROCK THT LOOKED LIKE a beehive and a honey comb at the same time!!!!!!!!!!
rock hunting is a great way to help you about nature and its history. i myself love rockhunting it is so cool! keep collecting.
ONCE I WENT IN MY FRONTYARD AND FOUND A ARROWHEAD IT SAS GREENISH/BROWN IT WAS THE BEST THING I HAD EVERYL SEEN.
I LIKE TO LOOK FOR ROCKS BY RR TRacks
Gooseberry Falls is the best place for rock hunting and rock climbing. I hunted it ALL day long. It was fun fun fun!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
i luv rock hunting! it is totally awesome
THE PICTURES ARE REALLY COOL!!!!
you guys rock
I one time was up at a lake, and I went rock hunting and found tons and tons of geodes. It was awesome.
hey wats up i was at a feild trip in north dakota and i fell in a pile of rocks an then wen they found me they notice that was a really expencive rock then i got a peice but i lost it in my pocket
ROCKS R COOL TO C WUTS IN SIDE OF THEM.
i know. they are so interesting!!
One time I was walking on a field. I saw many agates.
FOR SCHOOL WE WENT TO A PLACE AND WE FOUND AN AWSOME BONE THAT LOOKED LIKE A CHERRIO. WE GOT TO BRING THE BONES WE FOUND HOME WITH US! I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS A COOL IDEA. DON'T YOU.
MY FAMILY AND I WENT TO HIDDEN FALLS AND I CLIMBED UP IT IT WAS SO MUCH FUN I ACUTUALLY GOT TO TOUCH THE FALLS IT WAS ALOT OF FUN (IF I DIDENT MENTION THAT ALREADY.)
ALYSSA
We have different kinds of rock in Montana
I USED TO USE ROCKS TO SMOOTH STICKS OR I WOULD MAKE TOOLS WITH THEM.
I DID IT A LOT WITH MY SISTER, SARAH.
me 2
oh, that is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FINDING DIFFERENT KINDS OF ROCKS IS GREAT FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i like to collcelct rocks
Am going to minnesota this summer and want to know if anyone has any cool rock/fossil/arrowhead hunting areas they can share????
found cool rocky fossil things yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE SO MANEY DIFFERENT ROCKS IN MY OWN DRIVEWAY OR IN MY NEBIEORS YARD I HAVE SO MUCH FUN
this one time i was digging in my backyard for fossils and i found the cutest little mole, i named the mole molesworth and we got to know each other very well. well as most people know whenever there is a mole, there's usually a fossil somewhere nearby, so i kept digging. me and molesworth discovered the magical underground land of fancypants. in fancypants land you can do whatever you want all the