Or hafted onto a shaft it would make a great "prehistoric" weapon.
Better yet, have a Megalodon jaw as your door!!!!. Have the full set of teeth mounted in the jaw and when someone like a door to door salesperson comes around annoying you, snap it shut!!!!
It's good to see the interest in prehistory is alive and well, The only specimens I have collected my self are some devonian lycopods so I have had to resort to the silver pick and out source for the ones I want this might be blasphemy but I am about to pay four times as much as my scope cost me for some great specimens from america including an entire juvenile ankylosaur articulated foot I'll post pics as I get them, I have a partial chevron from hell creek montana also half a T rex tooth I'll send pics of those also, it gets so addictive once you start collecting
I haven't found any of my fossils myself, but I have a few dinosaur teeth (Spinosaurus, Triceratops, Hadrosaur etc), Hadrosaur egg, trilobite...oh, and some dinosaur poo!
I haven't found any of my fossils myself, but I have a few dinosaur teeth (Spinosaurus, Triceratops, Hadrosaur etc), Hadrosaur egg, trilobite...oh, and some dinosaur poo!
My sister bought a house from a paleontologist and there is a sink bench top he had made is about 1meter square and is like green/grey polished stone (like marble) but looking into it, it is full of small bones, teeth and vertebra.
I must get a pic.
There is more interest in geology on this forum than I expected. If you do like such things and you are in Wollongong you could do worse than visit the uni and go the first floor foyer of Building 41. There you will find the Howard Worner Collection.
There are also a few other cases with some nice bits and pieces (eg crinoids, a 30cm ammonite). If you give me some notice I might be able to show you a few other things. We could certainly look through the main teaching lab (unless there is a class in there) but the displays there are mostly functional (different symmetry groups, colour vs streak, lustre, habit, simple and complex twinning etc). If we're real nice to the curator she might show you some of the stuff that we can't display yet (eg she recently got a pair of the biggest trilobites I've ever seen). Our curator is pretty good and a fanatical collector, for us and for her own collection. See below (don't take Paul's use of 'we' too seriously - Penny does 95% of the work)
One day we might get the Hobbit stuff housed too (I've held a full reproduction - internal and external - of the cranium in my hands ).
BTW if you are a real tech-head I can show a collection of pricy beige boxes, and tell you which ones are - and are not - in my good books at the moment .
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