How to find fossils

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Saurornitholestes, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Saurornitholestes-Episode-397/

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Dinosaur of the day Saurornitholestes, A dromaeosaurid that looked similar to Velociraptor with teeth that may have been used to preen its feathers..

Some resources to help you find fossils:

FOSSILS: A Guide to Prehistoric Life, a book with many helpful photos and descriptions, plus links to more resources.
myFOSSIL, a website that's "building a community of amateur and professional paleontologists."
The Fossil Forum can help you ID fossils.
A PBS webpage listing where you can find fossils in each US state.
Fossil Explorer, an app that covers fossil localities in England, Scotland, and Wales.

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0:41.7	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett.
0:42.5	And I'm Sabrina.
0:49.3	And today in our 397th episode, Sabrina's is going to tell us all about how to find fossils.
0:53.6	Yes, as well as Dinosaur of the day, Soor Ornithillesites.
0:54.6	Very nice.
1:00.9	But before we get into all that, we want to thank some of our patrons for helping us to create this deep dive episode.
1:14.6	And this week we'd like to thank Ranger Chris from Dino for Hire, Viatis, James, Sarasaurus, Rex, Jesse, Christine, Sophie, Lorosaurus, Vincentrosaurus, and J.C.
1:22.6	Awesome. Thank you so much, everybody, for supporting our show, and also just for sharing your love of dinosaurs with us.
1:46.8	All right, I pulled a Garrett here and did a deep dive, went down an erectodromace burrow on how to find fossils. It started with how to find fossils. And then I decided to go expand a little bit more on what are fossils and what do they look like and things like that. I will say that the main sources, which will link to in our show notes at Iinodino.com, if you want to see for yourself, is the book Fossils, A Guide to a Prehistoric Life,
1:51.5	which was a really great resource that points to other resources, so you can also go down
1:55.9	your own burrow. There's a lot of great photos and descriptions. It goes through different time periods,
2:02.5	vertebrates and invertebrates, and plant fossils. And there are a few apps and websites that can help
2:08.2	you with when you're going on fossil digs or if you want help with identifying fossils that you
2:14.7	found. That includes the app Fossil Explorer, the website My Fossil,
2:19.2	and the website The Fossil Forum. So I'll start with what are fossils? Well, fossils are the remains
2:25.7	or traces of the remains of animals and plants, basically all organisms, because that includes
2:30.8	bacteria. I don't know where bacteria falls. I think they're an animal, maybe. I don't know. They're a living thing. That's true. The word fossil comes from the Latin word, Phossus, which means to dig, or fossilist, which means obtained by digging. Fossilization can happen a few ways. So one example, let's just say a dinosaur, dies in a lake,
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