Fossils

[danger will robinson]

Can someone find me a good picture of a Velocaraptor, most of the ones I find are just drawings.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... X%26um%3D1

[blufoster6]

here is a good pic of a skeleton of a velociraptor

http://www.twoguysfossils.com/images/mo ... leton2.jpg

[Dinogirl]

Yeah...I really really wish Rocks and Min was stll an event...my fave
But i'm starting to like fossils a lot more too..

[detectiveJ]

i agree! i love rocks and minerals.. but... fossils is okay :/ i miss rocks and minerals. its funny because at the fossils competition, there was one station that was completely identifying sedimentary rocks. IT WAS AWESOME. i was like i know this! and my partner was like whattt?

[danger will robinson]

I have to teach one of the B team Fossil kids how to ID rocks. (I've done Rocks for 2 years). I'm getting kinda worried because the competition is in 2 weeks, and he keeps identifying rocks with names like "oatmeal" (coquina), "cement" (brechia) and "the clumpy rocky thingy" (conglomerate).

[maggymay]

I have to teach one of the B team Fossil kids how to ID rocks. (I've done Rocks for 2 years). I'm getting kinda worried because the competition is in 2 weeks, and he keeps identifying rocks with names like "oatmeal" (coquina), "cement" (brechia) and "the clumpy rocky thingy" (conglomerate).

As long as the B kid can ID them, maybe he just needs flash cards with "COQUINA = OATMEAL" and so on. Personally, I think his descriptions are kind of spot-on.

[gneissisnice]

haha for rocks and minerals, we remembered that bauxite "had polka dots" and barite kinda looked like a cake with frosting, so it was 'barite, bake a cake". It actually helped. Sorta.

[danger will robinson]

Actually, you're right. I'll tell him that on Monday. I just hope that he bothers to do what I ask him to! *crosses fingers and prays to the gods of SO*

[dudeincolorado]

I have to teach one of the B team Fossil kids how to ID rocks. (I've done Rocks for 2 years). I'm getting kinda worried because the competition is in 2 weeks, and he keeps identifying rocks with names like "oatmeal" (coquina), "cement" (brechia) and "the clumpy rocky thingy" (conglomerate).

haha i named the trilobites.... theres braniac (phacops) flippy (isolus) repunzel (criptolythus) and boring (erathera)

[dudeincolorado]

Random question ok at one of the stations we had to id the phyllum of a random genus not on the list, it was either bryzoa or proifora. We wern't sure so we read the questions,
they were: name the needle like things that hold up this animal,
why is this considered a "lower animal",
how does this animal control water?,
and why whould the phyllum name explain this animal
we guessed sponge.. what you you have guessed?