TERRA IMPRESSIONS

A friend and I discovered a "honey hole" fossil site several years back. We were pulling out fern fossils left and right as well as other...

You hear that statement made by fisherman telling stories about the "one that got away" on their fishing trips. I've even used it when I...

I was able to get off work on a Saturday and got another opportunity to attend another field trip back in 2016. This time to an active...

I got a second opportunity to go on a field trip with the Alabama Paleontological Society to hunt Cretaceous Period Marine Fossils in...

I have spent countless hours hunting, cataloging and framing fossils as well as scouting locations for them. You'd think I get paid for...

Shortly after becoming a member of The Fossil Forum...I got to meet a whole community of fossil collectors in the state of Alabama! They...

The nephews and I collected so many fossils that we didn't know what the identities were other than they were fascinating rocks with...

As the buildings went up along the Highway 150 corridor our fossils sites began to disappear. Perhaps that was good thing because we ran...

As one of my favorite comedians stated, "Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up, and smile for a satellite...

The Carboniferous Period that encompassed much of Central Alabama was known for its vast swamp forests, such as depicted in the diorama...

In the mid to late 2000, there was a lot of construction going on along the Highway 150 corridor. It is a hilly area, excavators were...

300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period in what is now Hoover. Towering over a swampy environment were trees called...

And so it begins...I 'm attempting to do a blog of my fossil adventures. Where do I begin? I guess from the beginning since I have bits...