Our state gem stone is Lithostrotionella, which is fossilized coral that is 360 million years old. The way things become agatized is through time, heat and pressure. That’s what will separate ...

YEMASSEE — Avid metal detector Bobbie Stasa prospected for the better part of two days on a plot of mostly wooded land in southern South Carolina without any luck. "I hadn't found a thing all ...

Florida does not have a dinosaur but its official state stone is fossilized. The "agatized coral" is Florida's state stone. It is agatized coral from between the Oligocene through Miocene age.

Y'all... I literally can't stop hunting for Agatized Coral Geodes! I am obsessed. They are beautiful and weird and everything I love in a fossil/gem/mineral. Not to ...

Here are five things you should know about the exhibit. 1. The Agatized Coral and Other Silicified Fossils exhibit is now open. And you’re getting in for free. 2. Florida geologists Sam Upchurch ...

The agatized egg likely belonged to a titanosaur, which were common in what is now India during the Cretaceous. (Earlier this year, nearly 100 titanosaur nests in India were comprehensively ...