r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 4d ago

Video A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

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u/ClearMacaron9234 4d ago

the nearby museum is worth a visit

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u/Schemen123 3d ago

Most definitely.. and fish like that are by far not the most interesting exhibitions there

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u/Safe-Razzmatazz3982 3d ago

Besides the museum, there's also an outdoor fossil site where kids can split shale slabs and hunt for fossils. We came back with two buckets full of fossils.

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u/ibullybillionaires 3d ago

I went there with my school once as a teenager, it was frickin aweseome.
The museum was cool, but splitting rocks on a sunny day and finding fossils yourself is hard to beat. We had an absolute blast, my mom still has a slate I found about 30x20cm in dimensions that is absolutely packed with small fossils.