• Question: what was the first fossil found?

    Asked by crazy16eloise to Adam, Emily, Thad, Thomas on 13 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Thomas Clements

      Thomas Clements answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Tough question.

      Fossils have been correctly identified as fossils since the 1700s but there are many examples of fossils being used as jewelry in the stone age. In medieval times they were often thought to be ‘petrified’ (turned to stone) snakes and were crushed into a powder which was snorted or drunk to ward off bad spirits.

      My first fossil ever found was an ammonite that can be seen on my bio page.

    • Photo: Thaddeus Aid

      Thaddeus Aid answered on 14 Mar 2015:

      HI,

      I don’t know what the first fossil found was, but I know the first one I found was a trilobite! When I was about your age my class went on a fossil hunting field trip and the teachers gave us little hammers to break up rocks. We got released into an area that billions of years ago was an ocean and we searched through the rocks and I managed to find one!

      If you want to go look for fossils the best places in the UK are found at this website http://www.ukfossils.co.uk/guides/where%20to%20find%20fossils.htm

      Obviously take an adult with you!

      I wonder what you will find!

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