• Question: What is the biggest fossil you have ever found and how big was it?

    Asked by igloo23 to Leila on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Well I try to find the smallest fossils I can for my job, so the fossils for my research are all really really tiny!

      I found a fossil of a single celled plant that was almost a millimetre across once!

      I’m not very good at finding big fossils, I’m not patient enough! I once found a fossil of a fish in China though, but it was only about 10cm long. You could see all its bones and its scales though!

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