Iowa's Mini Badlands: Rockford Fossil and Prairie Park
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In this episode we explore Rockford's Fossil and Prairie Park and go hunting for some awesome Devonian fossils!
Fossil collecting in Iowa, at Fossil & Prairie Center near Rockford.
Fossil collecting in Iowa, at Fossil & Prairie Center near Rockford.
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50 States of Fossils - Iowa (ft. Mid-America Paleontology Society)
MAPS (Mid-America Paleontology Society) and FOSSIL welcome you to Iowa! We will be exploring the 375 million year ocean depths at the Fossil and Prairie Center in Rockford. Remember there is no selling the fossils from this sites. The rules discussed in the video apply for this site. You are responsible for knowing the collecting rules for the site you choose to collect at. Happy hunting!
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This video may be used as supplementary material for 3-LS4-1 and 4-ESS-1 in Next Generation Science Standards.
The Fossil Prairie Center in Rockford, Iowa. Very interested.
Rockford, Iowa: Fossil Prairie Area
Rockford, Iowa is home to Devonian Fossils.
Fossil Hunting Wager - Devonian Era Gorge - Rockford Iowa
Fossil Hunting Wager $ Adventure - Devonian Era Gorge - Rockford Iowa
Join my son and I as we hunt devonian era fossil from a gorge in Rockford Iowa. We put TWO bets on the line.
Did I win the first one?
Will I win the second?
It is up to you! Please vote in the comments with who you felt found the best fossil on this hunt. Voting will end at midnight on September 30th 2019.
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Iowa Prairie sights and sounds
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NBHS Choir and Band Large Group at Rockford Iowa
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Fossil Hunting~ 470 Million Year Old Asteroid Impact Site ~ Decorah Iowa
This video is about Fossil hunting, ~ 470 Million Year Old Asteroid Impact Site ~ Deborah Iowa, fossil dig, fossil hunt, Decorah fossils, sea creatures, Decorah sea creatures, Decorah impact, Decorah fossils, Iowa fossils, meteor strikes, asteroid strikes, meteor strikes earth
Fossils Show Big Bug Ruled the Seas 460 Million Years Ago
Earth's first big predatory monster was a weird water bug as big as a human, newly found fossils show.
Almost half a billion years ago, way before the dinosaurs roamed, Earth's dominant large predator was a sea scorpion that grew to 5 feet 7 inches, with a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head and a spike tail, according to a new study.
Scientists found signs of these new monsters of the prehistoric deep in Iowa, of all places.
Geologists at the Iowa Geological Survey found 150 pieces of fossils about 60 feet under the Upper Iowa River, part of which had to be temporarily dammed to allow them to collect the specimens. Then scientists at Yale University determined they were a new species from about 460 million year ago, when Iowa was under an ocean
Then, all the action was in the sea and it was pretty small scale, said James Lamsdell of Yale, lead author of the study published Monday in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
This is the first real big predator, Lamsdell said. I wouldn't have wanted to be swimming with it. There's something about bugs. When they're a certain size, they shouldn't be allowed to get bigger.
Technically, this creature — named Pentecopterus decorahensis, after an ancient Greek warship — is not a bug by science definitions, Lamsdell said. It's part of the eurypterid family, which are basically sea scorpions.
Those type of creatures are really cool, said Joe Hannibal, curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Hannibal wasn't part of the study, but praised it for being well done, adding this species is not particularly bizarre — for a eurypterid.
Unlike modern land scorpions, this creature's tail didn't sting. It was used more for balance and in swimming, but half this creature's length was tail, Lamsdell said.
There were larger sea scorpions half way around the world at the same time but those were more bottom feeders instead of dominant predators, he said.
Lamsdell could tell by the way the many arms come out of the elongated head how this creature grabbed prey and pushed it to its mouth.
It was obviously a very aggressive animal, Lamsdell said. It was a big angry bug.
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The 5ft-long scorpion that terrorised the seas 460 million years ago
The 5ft-long scorpion that terrorised the seas 460 million years ago: Fossils of giant predator with 'paddles' found in Iowa
The 'fantastically preserved' fossils of the largest and oldest species of sea scorpion ever found have been unearthed in Iowa.
Dating back 460 million years, the eurypterid species would have measured more than 5ft (1.5 metres) long and had unique 'paddle-shaped' legs to help it swim and dig.
Its bizarre shape resembles that of the Greek warship penteconter, and the species has been described as 'Pentecopterus decorahensis'.
Eurypterids were extinct monster-like predators that swam the seas in ancient times and are related to modern arachnids.
Buried treasure Iowa style
Digging up a large rock
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Large Iowa Crinoid
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Ordovician Fossils at Caesars Creek, Ohio
I'm not a paleontologist, but I do have a lot of interest in the history of the natural world. My wife and I took a day to drive to Caesar Creek, Ohio to look for fossils in the spillway. This a great activity for families and students of all ages. I was inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum in DC. It was fun to mix pictures taken at the museum with video showing where some fossils can be found. I'd be very interested to know of other fossil hunting sites around the world.