Everyone knows Gus and his good friend Root the Wood Turtle @mnhnovascotia.bsky.social - but did you know that the NSM Geology Collection also has 80,000 year old Wood Turtles from the mastodon sinkhole? Imagine putting these ancient puzzles together!
It is a rainy day in Nova Scotia. These impressions were made by raindrops falling millions of years ago, a prehistoric weather event frozen in the fossil record.
Check out another Fossil Rain Print on our Collection Online:
collections.novascotia.ca/object-967gs...
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. Also wondering about the writing in pencil above.