Fossil Locator

@JurassicFi @solana Looking forward to working with the team on this exciting project!

Jurassic Finance Labs is proud to announce Yinan Wang (@fossillocator) as the third and final of three advisors supporting the core team in bringing tokenized dinosaurs to @Solana. A Princeton-trained geologist, Yinan has spent two decades in the natural history industry and is the author of the award-winning 50 States Geoscience series; guidebooks on fossils, gems and minerals, and meteorites that have introduced a generation of young collectors to the field. He brings deep technical expertise and a rare network of connections to dinosaur suppliers across the US. Mr. Wang will help authenticate and verify specimens, conduct provenance and background checks, and recommend offloading pathways for any dinosaurs that head to Jurassic Finance Labs. Mr. Wang will receive 1% of Jurassic Finance Labs, drawn entirely from the core team's Performance Package, and bound by the same unlock conditions.

@kittensnotkids Also be aware some bad buyers are using AI to alter the condition of objects after receipt so they can get a partial refund and keep things

Packed the shit out of this fuckass teapot - paper, packing foam, bubble wrap, cardboard, then cardboard box. Put a fragile label on the box. Got delivered today. Apparently someone took an axe to the goddamb thing because LOOK at that dent. HOW. Did they DRIVE OVER IT?

@getpseudoed Always fun when a specimen label says Rhodesia

Opened up a project and Cecil Rhodes is staring at me. Last time it was Leopold II. (My projects are pretty much always about rocks.)

@SuzyQuzey Hey!

@FossilLocator Hi!

I still check in here once a day, miss you all! Here’s some cleaved fluorites from Illinois, each about 2.5 cm across

@awisn @AJamesMcCarthy I still check things once a day, but my stuff is through a publisher so I’m no help on self publishing. Hey Adrianna!

@AJamesMcCarthy @FossilLocator Yinan Wang has published 3 great books (one on rocks/one on meteorites/one on Fossils). I purchased all three. You could DM him, since he hardly ever comes on this platform anymore. Maybe he can help.

I’ve had so many coffee table book requests- and many works in progress of one, but have zero knowledge about that side of printing. Anyone with experience in the industry have advice on how to self-publish a high quality coffee table book?

@tagsalegirl @ConnerStinesWx @hurricanetrack Neat!

@ConnerStinesWx @hurricanetrack @FossilLocator tornado induced fossil find!

During the Foraker, OK tornado I found a cool rock with fossils so I was curious if anybody knows what these are? I was assuming fossilized plant matter but it looks like some sort of worm coiled up. I specialize in human history and weather, not paleontology 😔 #paleontology

PS: I’m becoming more active on the blue site, same name

I’m taking a break from X for a bit. Will still check messages sporadically but if you need to reach me feel free to contact me from a number of places in my linktree. Always happy to talk to ya’ll!

I design a local magazine in the summer and we have rivals. Out of curiosity I searched "(our location) magazine" and on the first page we appear the most, the neighborhood newspaper once and it's 4th. We are at the top. I worked 14 years for this moment and I'm fucking proud.

@kittensnotkids @siberianstronk I’ve got some let over but it depends on what state you’re in, some states (ie NY, NJ, CA) have bans on sale and buying of it

@siberianstronk @FossilLocator any ideas? This is a Native artist, btw

Random nerd slid into my DMs in January. Talk every day. February sent me gifts & flowers & flew out to California for a romantic adventure. Now we are building Pokopia worlds together. Anything is possible on this accursed app. Even, sometimes, love ❤️

@MetalSolace I have some somewhere…

@FossilLocator Just a pendant.

Looks like people are finding small pieces in Sharon Center OH so that’s where the meteorite money is!

@MetalSolace Like as a pendant or ring of beads?

@FossilLocator I really hope to have a meteorite necklace someday. Idk why really, but I have for a long time.

@EmuLarge @AwrBamiyas @BestCryptids Wait what

@FossilLocator @AwrBamiyas @BestCryptids There are at least two species of freshwater pipefish so a freshwater seahorse doesn’t seem far fetched

This is an alleged freshwater seahorse which was caught in Lake Titicaca, which has no connection to the sea, sometime before 1911. There are several other reports of seahorses being seen in the lake's shallows, as well as two ancient ceramic seahorses found on its islands.

@IheardalittleT @911NewsBreaks Space Debris , too slow for a Meteor

@911NewsBreaks @FossilLocator 👀

ALERT: 🚨 Secondary video emerges of UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT captured in the skies roughly 30 minutes from Dallas. NO CONFIRMATION from NASA of any activity over Texas as of now. DOES THE OBJECT CHANGE DIRECTION or IS IT THE CAMERA / PHONE MOVING?

All gone now... like tears in the rain

@IheardalittleT Not expected and would be unrelated

@FossilLocator Seeing one in Dallas, another in Cali… was this expected?

Good trajectory, trail, and boom on this meteor. Very likely there will be small fragments on the ground in Ohio and the professional meteorite hunters will be there in hours. PS: I wrote a book on US meteorites