/sci/ - Science & Math

Did you find it near a river or another source of water? If you did it could have just been smoothed by the current

it's my child

I assume you don't have a lab?
You might do some experiments to find out tho.
Put it in different liquids to see its density, if its too high, then it can't be a fossil

That's a fossil bro.

I can tell you man, I'm fucking serious right now.

Go to the nearest archaeology dpt and show it to some professor, I'm sure you could even become awfully rich selling it.

You could even be recorded in history books as the man who found the first dinosaur fossil egg.

How much does it weigh? Is it definitively egg shaped?

It's a fossilized hockey puck
From the last time the Leafs won the Cup

>>4780552
The fuck are you doing making a post like that, even discussing hockey let alone the shittiest team in the history of the sport is inappropriate for a science board.

You should feel bad.

Which part of Tennessee?
Because East TN has a ton of Precambrian copperlite fossils, and a few soft bodied creatures.

>>4780586
wouldn't that mean he probably doesn't have an egg then

>>4780594
Yeah

>>4780623
hollow*

does it seem hallow? tap it gently..

also see if it floats

it's an avocado
eat it quickly before it spoils

>>4780623
>Rock
>Floating

>Fossil
>Floating

What would be the point of that exercise.

>>4780630

If it happens to be an egg fossil, it would be likely that the inside would be hollow and contain air. Hence, it might float even if you don't expect it to.

At the very least, you would note how fast it would sink just to get an idea of its density.

>>4780634
Lawl wut. I'm not a paleontologist or anything, but I figure an egg would fill with sediment through a hole or something. No egg would last intact like that if it was hollow, especially if it is millions of years old.

>>4780630
Rocks don't usually float, I'm not sure what you're implying by " > Rock > Floating".

>>4780640

It very much so depends on how it was fossilized, and the experiment is worth doing either way.

l2/sci/ence.

Let me guess, you're an engineering undergrad?

>I figure an egg would fill with sediment through a hole or something

Valid assumption, but that still means air would be trapped within it much more than in a rock.

Hence the floating experiment.

Hollow is a bad word, because it gives the idea of it being hollow like a perfectly intact egg.

>>4780643
> Let me guess, you're an engineering undergrad?
And the surprising thing was that we actually made it to at least 10 posts without any idiotic attempt at a dick measuring contest.

>>4780650
Ah, thank you, that makes more sense.

OP is probably just a troll though :(
Got me excited for a second.

4/10.

>>4780534

Sit on it and wait for it to hatch

>>4780659
lol'd

thats an avocado bro

A Triassic dinosaur avocado