Just show something cool: Part 311972

Originally Posted by sborock
This is cool! Vintage Cap VHS still sealed and in mint condition.

Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town




Your pieces are real, and not faked up junk so that is a plus. I think the price might have been steep given the example for sale on ebay, but then again, yours might have more shells , be more well prepared , and display better....eye of the beholder type thing I guess

Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town
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Originally Posted by Towmater
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Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town




Your pieces are real, and not faked up junk so that is a plus. I think the price might have been steep given the example for sale on ebay, but then again, yours might have more shells , be more well prepared , and display better....eye of the beholder type thing I guess

It is too bad that some people can't realize that one person's "junk" is an 8 year old's treasure. Our son has one of these. He knows it isn't a real fossil. It cost $20.00. That didn't stop him from carting it to school for show and tell along with the split megladon teeth he has. Yes, I typed split. They are cheaper to purchase and if he drops it then it isn't a big deal. However, his friends get to see real fossils and a nice representation of a portion of mosasaurus' jaw in person. It allows for the children in his class to be stimulated and seek out information on creatures from the past. So, sometimes "junk" isn't junk.

Its also a shame that some people do not realize that encouraging the manufactured fossil trade does alot to mis-educate and deprive people of their hard earned funds. Honestly the pieces pictured could easily be made for far less than 20 dollars so he definitely got robbed there, and sadly you are condoning that fact. As for carting it to school for show and tell, nothing like also using a poor fake to mislead other children right? As for Megladon teeth, yes I know what a split tooth is...and? that has nothing to do with passing something off that is fake for something that is NOT...a split tooth is still an actual fossil. And, yes when he shows them split teeth they are seeing a real fossil as opposed to the fake mosasaurus jaw he is passing off as a real fossil.

If he were really showing them a mosasaurus jaw , he would not be misleading them about size..it would literally be too massive for him to carry. It would also not be so tightly pushed together, nor would it have fake tips on some of the teeth, as well as filled areas that were missing. The bone would be made of solid jawbone material rather than modern ground up cowbones and it would be fossilized.

If the children in his class need to be stimulated and want a reason to seek out information about creatures from the past, it requires little expense, time and effort to get them real ones to discuss and learn from rather than peddling off cheap fakes and supporting a trade industry that balks people out of their money believing they got a deal.It does require a little time and effort spent education onself what is real and is not however. Junk IS junk, in the world of fossils and attempting to defend fraudulent fakes is rather disgusting by any measure. This is why the US keeps building more stringent and firm laws against such imports and why there is a posted advisory about purchasing any fossil representation from the Kem Kem basin. Also it might do well to realize that many of these fossils are being illegally mined and stolen from their native countries and exported without legal permits and in violation of the laws of said nation...so nothing like endorsing theft, destruction of national treasures and basic looting.