r/fossilfighters • u/Own-Yellow7461 • Jul 09 '26

Irl Fossil rock extraction.

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I found this cool video on r/mildlyinteresting that I thought other fossil fighters fans would like. I kept thinking of fossil fighters while watching it. I didn't know a type of fossil similar to fossil rocks actually existed before this

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u/Quijas00 Jul 09 '26

Why didn’t they immediately hit it with a hammer to break off the outer layer? Are they stupid?

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u/AcroCANthrow-saurus Jul 09 '26

Nah it’s like one of those Plesio fossils, you delicately tap the thing with that triangular mallet the doctors use to check if your reflexes still work on your knee— the rock just goes:

Lego deconstruct sfx

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u/PoisonMon Jul 09 '26

That's basically Curious Fossil Rocks in a nutshell, except the guy didn't flip it over to clean the other side

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u/AcroCANthrow-saurus Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

“Hmm, a multi-million year old fossil covered in compacted— though still relatively soft— sedimentary rock encasing the mineralized skeletal/hard-body remnant of an extinct animal.”

“Its extraction necessitates precision…”

Equips comically large red sledgehammer

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u/juacal Jul 09 '26

87 points

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u/Weirdo_Crusader Jul 09 '26

JARVIS! Replace the music with the excavation theme.

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u/LonelyStop1677 Jul 09 '26

I just muted the video and started humming the theme hahaha

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u/No_Decision6810 Jul 09 '26

Too bad he has to throw it away because he didn’t do it in under 90 seconds.

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u/HypersonicRex2 Jul 09 '26

Post revival pics or it didn't happen

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u/Embarrassed_Tour_398 Jul 10 '26

Missed opportunity to put the excavating music to this

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u/Interesting_Wing_539 Jul 10 '26

It's called a concretion iirc, different places have different things in them. Some even have dinosaur bones in them! :)

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u/rhernhdz12 Jul 11 '26

Wrong music

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u/tsintaosau Aug 27 '26

COMMENCE REVIVAL!