Word 1 of 10: TRILOBITE
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- TRILOBITE
- Trilobites crawled the sea floor for roughly 270 million years before dying out around 252 million years ago, and their jointed shells turn up in rock all over the world.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- AMMONITE
- The name comes from Ammon, an Egyptian god who was pictured with a coiled ram's horn, which is just what these spiral shells look like.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- AMBER
- Amber isn't a mineral at all. It's fossilized tree resin, and it floats in salt water, which is partly why so much washes up on Baltic beaches.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Fossils and amber word search, free and printable. Trilobites, curled ammonites and a fern pressed flat in shale, waiting along the creek bank.
About Fossils & Amber
Walk a gravel creek bed after a spring rain and you'll understand why kids come home with pockets full of rock. Some of those stones hold a coiled shell or the ghost of a fern, laid down in mud long before anyone was around to name them. Amber is the odd one out, tree resin hardened over millions of years, sometimes with a small insect caught inside like a fly in honey.
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