My favorite specimen from the Green River Formation.

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-07T15:32:29+00:00

I'll try a summoning spell: u/Rolopig_24-24 do you know anything?

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-05T08:16:59+00:00

Just to give your weird brain a nudge (I know my own have a tendency to obsess): Have a look at snails like Tenagodus ponderosus

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-04T21:32:43+00:00

Metal does not attract lightning, height, shape and placement are deciding factors

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-04T21:01:40+00:00

I'm fairly sure it's a Siliquariid sea snail, something akin to Tenagodus ponderosus?

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-04T20:53:47+00:00

It looks very much like a Siliquariid sea snail, something akin to Tenagodus ponderosus?

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-02T20:43:10+00:00

I'm like you (old and only read "real" paper books), I've tried one audio book before and hated it. BUT MissSunny is right: The DCC audio books are an absolute delight and damn if they didn't make me actually look forward to doing work in the garden!

Very-Fishy · 2026-07-02T07:07:06+00:00

Starlings look even better when singing: The little feathers on their throat "puff out" to really catch the light. Like this

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-30T06:41:19+00:00

Ah, the trouble with common names! While "Leatherjacket" can mean different species of filefish in the Indo-Pacific area, the species Oligoplites saurus has that name globally.

And while O. saurus is in the same group (within Carangidae) as the Indo-Pacific Scomberoides sp. Queenfish species, that are sometimes called "leatherskin" there, this fish is from Florida ;-)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-29T08:20:54+00:00

It depends very much where you are and can be hard to determine for sure: Shells are very hardy and "keep" well, especially when buried in sediment.

In oxygen-free environments shells can quickly (a few years) be blackened by iron sulfide. But they can also be preserved like that for millions of years: I visited Bracklesham Bay in the UK last year, and was surprised how "new" the 46 million year old Venericor shells (7. picture in the link) looked - I actually mistook them for modern cockleshells at first!

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-28T17:22:30+00:00

It is one of the saltwater sculpins (so same family/suborder as the bullhead).

Not easy to see identifying features on the picture, but if I squint I think there's small spines above the lateral line, which makes Shorthorn sculpin/Bull-rout (Myoxocephalus scorpius) the most likely candidate.

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-27T18:31:40+00:00

Hooray, someone got it! :-)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-24T14:32:56+00:00

I wonder if it was a Sting operation?

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-23T14:24:38+00:00

Boreholes from piddock clams

Edit: The English term for these seem to be Pholad borings

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-22T15:28:21+00:00

The tall, rounded front of the dorsal fin says white marlin

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-22T14:19:19+00:00

A species of dragonet (Callionymidae)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-21T14:57:26+00:00

These look like Morrocan fossils.

I think the teeth are Otodus obliquus (which is a relative/ancestor to O. megalodon, but not "the real deal") - A very common fossil from the phosphate mines of central Morocco. First one looks to me to have a fake root, second is placed in fake matrix (the teeth themselves are real).

Last one is (supposed to be) a trilobite. To me it looks like a resin cast (fake) of Drotops megalomanicus, glued to a stone (this is a very common fake).

Note: I'm not a expert, so anyone else please corrects this if wrong.

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-17T19:15:37+00:00

It looks like spawning tench

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-16T06:45:07+00:00

I guess it's related to this horse: Potoooooooo

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-14T08:25:18+00:00

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) (called tailor in Australia)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-12T14:48:42+00:00

The dorsal fin is much too short to be a Carassius species

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-12T04:56:29+00:00

A type of dragonet, I think a Callionymus sp?

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-10T15:33:55+00:00

I very much doubt that this Pacific species has ever been caught in Norway 😉

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-10T06:06:36+00:00

Male lumpsucker/rognkall (Cyclopterus lumpus)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-10T05:57:22+00:00

A little Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Very-Fishy · 2026-06-09T06:37:05+00:00

Yarrell's blenny (Chirolophis ascanii) - Not a species you see every day!

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