There's big money to be made by finding and selling genuine fossils.
Fossils of prehistoric plants and animals are highly prized by collectors.
Rock hounds are people who enjoy collecting rocks and minerals, as well as fossils.
Tribolites are fossil animals. Ammonites are also fossils.
The skeletons of animals sometimes fossilize, and people can purchase them online.
Remnants, impressions, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that have
been preserved in the earth's crust are called fossils.
