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The First Fossil Hunt Of 2023
Went on my first fossil hunt and field trip of the new year on January 14, 2023. It was forecast to be a chilly day in the high 40's, so...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Jan 20, 20233 min read
I Love Trace Fossil Hunts, A Time To Get Away From It All
"Ichno Fossils" also known as "Trace Fossils", provide us with indirect evidence of life through footprints, tracks, burrows, borings,...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Jan 5, 20233 min read
What A Muddy Day It Was... And The Rain, C'mon Man
Fossil hunters are a breed that will hunt fossils it seems in any kind of weather? Saturday was no exception. It had been raining all...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Dec 7, 20223 min read
Local Spot A Friend Invited Me To, Who Knew
You see a lot of significant and insignificant stuff on social media! I had seen postings of fossils that come out of the Cahaba River...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Nov 16, 20226 min read
Second Trip To The Same Creek That Was Productive As The First
It is now the latter part of October 2022, and the leaves are changing color and the temperatures are dropping as low as the mid forties...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Nov 2, 20223 min read
Never Visited This Creek Before, But I Heard The Stories
Back in July 2022, I got the opportunity to visit a creek that I had never been too. I had heard stories about it and the finds that it...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Oct 27, 20224 min read
I Can't Say I've Never Been To Point A Dam Anymore
Yep, I've heard people talk about it, seen picture posts of the finds that came out of the site and yes, longed for some day to make a...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Oct 18, 20223 min read
The Creek That Runs Through A Hunting Club
Round two of an anticipated visit to a creek running through a hunting club. We were invited down to see what we could find on the creek...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Oct 10, 20224 min read
July Was A Busy Month To Fish And Hunt Marine Fossils
Even though July 2022 will go down as the saddest month in my lifetime, it was also a month of hunting several creeks that are my happy...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Sep 30, 20224 min read
It's Back To The Chalk Gullies We Go
It had been three weeks since the last fossil hunt with my hunting buddies. This hunt was scheduled for last week and had to be postponed...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Sep 12, 20224 min read
It's July 2022 With Sadness In The Air, I Soldier On...
I tell ya with my friends and the love of fossil hunting I don't know where I'd be. I do know there will always be sadness especially if...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Sep 2, 20223 min read
Hunting A New Creek Running Through A Hunting Club
An old high school friend contacted me last year through Facebook. He told me that he had lease property with a hunting club in South...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Jun 24, 20223 min read
It's Getting Hot Out There!
The temps in the great outdoors this year has gotten hotter as the days pass, that makes it difficult to get out and enjoy fossil...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
May 27, 20224 min read
When Stressed Out With Life, You Get Fossil Therapy
It had been a rough week and a good way to end April 2022 with some fossil creek hunting! The stressful situation I face will get worse...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Apr 21, 20223 min read
It's Starting to Heat Up, Figuratively And Literally
April 2022 is starting off with one field trip with a local entity to a research site in South Alabama. I've been there before and didn't...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Apr 14, 20223 min read
A Great Way To End March 2022
Scheduling conflicts, rain and cold weather seems to be the order for the month of March 2022! Finally, got to go on a group field trip...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Mar 17, 20225 min read
Cold and Wet February 2022 Fossil Hunts
The month of January flew by pretty quickly, and I can only account for one adventure during that month. Now the month has passed and...
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Feb 24, 20225 min read
January Can Be A Boring Month
With Christmas and New Year's celebrations behind us. For most folks January can be an uneventful month, that is... unless you are a...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Feb 4, 20223 min read
Another Great Day And Time On The Creek With My Hunting Buddies
For some reason, the weather patterns of lately have gotten some days all screwed up! It is now raining on Saturday and its one of my...
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Rockin' Ric's Blog
Jan 28, 20223 min read
It's Good To Be Acknowledged In The Paleo World
Back in November 2021 I got the chance to go on a field trip with the Alabama Paleontological Society in conjunction with the Alabama...
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