I noticed some coral fossils on big rocks at the local playground.

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1. May have been added/left so kids could explore and make the discoveries themselves. If not, they’ve missed a trick!

2. Páirc Uí Jurassic

3. Bet your kids still think you’re older than the fossils 🙃!

4. This is a tiktok trend, kids are downloading these stencil things and buying a particular marker off of Temu to apply it.

5. Cool designs

6. https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/w7EF0DX2fo Imagine finding a human jawbone in your new floor though

7. Looks pretty cool, some kind of looks like jellyfish with bones.

8. Probably coral fossils from about 350 million years ago. Fossils like this are fairly common all over Ireland. A lot of the old blue limestone paving kerbs in our cities have fossils in them and most people never even notice.

   Anyways, there’s a good guide here for the common types:

   https://www.burrengeopark.ie/learn-engage/fossil-identification-guide/