If you've seen a T. rex in a museum, you've almost certainly seen a piece of Hell Creek. More than 95% of T. rex museum specimens come from this one formation. Not most — nearly all of them. It's the single most important dinosaur bed in North America, and it's the reason T. rex is the most famous animal that ever lived. What a "formation" actually is A geologic formation is a distinct layer of rock, laid down over a specific stretch of time, that you can trace across a...
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Fair question, and one worth answering carefully rather than with marketing. Short version: yes, for normal play. But "balanced" means different things to different people, and how a die is made matters more than what it's made of. What "balanced" actually means A perfectly balanced die has its center of mass exactly at its geometric center. Every face has an equal chance. No die achieves this. Not your $2 plastic set, not a $60 machined metal set, not a casino die. Manufacturing tolerances exist. Number pips remove material unevenly. Injection...
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Short answer: in the United States, yes — if the fossil came off private land. That's the whole distinction, and it's worth understanding properly, because it's the difference between a legal purchase and a federal crime. The rule Fossils from federal land are public property. National parks, BLM land, national forests — anything found there belongs to the government. It can't be privately owned and it can't be sold. Collecting vertebrate fossils on federal land without a permit is illegal. Fossils from private land belong to the landowner. If a...
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