I'll tell you - I've been collecting fossils since I was a kid. Some children had a teddy bear, I had a fossil shell. I don't have everything, but nevertheless I love them all. I've a dinosaur tooth, two bears teeth, shells, insects inside amber, fishes...

I have teddy bears...

my parents got me a rainbow monkey today...

I know this kid, named doug,, who like know a ton about dinosaurs...

What defines a fossil? could I like, make a fossil of my butt instead of a photocopy?

pretty..........

I just have a question. Why is the thread started a male, but name is Michele...

I think it's a german or french thing... look, he's from Switzerland

Close to my home in England, there was a beach where litterally thousands of people would go and find almost a constant supply of fossils. I took a trip there myself once, and found 10 fossilized trilobites and the like, fossilized in the slate and limestone.

SO i have a fair few, i wouldn't say i collect them, but they're nifty to have.

I don't actually look for them but I find them on occasion. It's interesting...I found a sharks tooth in N. Georgia in a dry creek bed on the side of the mountain. Makes you wonder how they get there.

We have Petoskey stones here in Michigan. I do collect rocks, crystals and fossills and I have some sort of tooth, I think its a walrus I love shells and rocks

I'm Italian, that's a male name. "Michela" is the female version, like Michelle. Michael would be my corresponding English translation then.

Just curious no offence or nothing you know I'm just a curious person.

Hehehe I've seen worse...

I collected few fossills and crystals for years. they have good energy source around them also they have great history around them too in the time period.

I kind of collect fossils. I have some petrified that i found around where i live and some shells.

I collect (almost) everything that don't look normal(mostly stones and fossils)
That is if I find any.

awww me too! I had this vast collection of fossils/arrowheads/pottery as a kid and I've moved so many times that I've lost the most of my stuff!!

Back in my home town of Santa Fe, NM there was all kinds of things to be found.

I think my prize piece was a fossilized cluster of clams. The cluster was really defined and very beautiful!

I also have a few chunks of fossilized wood around the house.

Just whenever I see something interesting, I tend to pick it up and bring it home. Even if it's just a pretty rock. LOL!

yeah me to

i used to collect fossils but i dont anymore

Went to a show last month, bought a couple (trilobite and crynoids). Got some shelled fossils from down the road and a fossilized strawberry (or petrified I don't know the difference).

petrified: is when minerals replace the organic matter from the fossil/object.
wikipedia's explanation.