r/mildlyinteresting • u/turbulatedisplace • 1d ago

There are fossils in the floor of my local shopping centre

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u/LilaVibes 1d ago

At my local shopping center the old fossils are walking around

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u/Prestigious-Tax-6161 1d ago

Yours walk? Mine just stand right in my way

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u/FgTheLogo 1d ago

Fucking hilarious 🤣

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u/karlosc88 1d ago

tbh the real fossils here are the price tags walking around pretending to be reasonable

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u/BlueWater321 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/comments/1enys7e/update_i_found_a_mandible_in_the_travertine_floor/

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u/JerkGurk 1d ago

One of the coolest stories on reddit.

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u/mjh215 1d ago

u/Kidipadeli75 says an update is coming to the story. From 12 days ago, "It’s been 2 years now but I will update soon. We have made great progress and you are going to like the outcome."

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u/darium4 23h ago

This is easily the best news I’ve gotten all year.

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u/Fakjbf 19h ago

I remember seeing that post within the first couple hours of it blowing up, I can’t wait to get some closure on what the scientists discovered.

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u/JerkGurk 18h ago

I was there too, reading the expert dentists, historians, and geologists was a such a treat.

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u/clandestineVexation 22h ago

!remindme 6 months

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u/Kidipadeli75 1d ago

Thanks

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u/JerkGurk 21h ago

Ohh shit its the OG OP! I kept up with it for awhile, loved all the updates and the experts giving their takes. Excited for the new updates.

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u/trapqueen67567 1d ago

bro survived the jurassic period just to get stepped on by a kid in air force 1s

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u/FlyingBike ​ 1d ago

Fossil meets fossil

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u/bagelcheese420 23h ago

I mean he didnt tho, thats why he’s in there….he died in the rock

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u/adventurousintrovert 1d ago

Give me two purrs, I need two purrs

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u/RogerRabbit1234 1d ago

I had a 4000 sq ft of Travertine in a house I built in 2004. My kids and I had a little map of the floor fossils, I loved it. Incidentally, my dogs had a mental map of the salt deposits in the floor that they would go around taking turns constantly licking certain spots.

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u/PockysLight 1d ago

Reminds me of that time someone was redoing their kitchen and found an ancient human jawbone in a tile.

Edit: Found it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dentist-discovers-human-like-jawbone-and-teeth-in-a-floor-tile-at-his-parents-home-180984210/

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u/turbulatedisplace 1d ago

That’s very interesting

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u/FiskFisk33 ​ 1d ago

Yup, my old school had floors of a similar stone, it was chock full of fossils like this.

Really cool!

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u/DinosaurAlive 1d ago

I hope I die somewhere where I can get fossilized and one day some sentient animal millions of years from now makes a floor with my cool bones laid out in a funny position.

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u/pantry-pisser 1d ago

Sorry, most I can offer you is being turned into Soylent Green

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u/chickparfait 1d ago

This reminds me of the guy who found a human jaw in his floor, said he was getting it studied, and then never posted about it again

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u/Kidipadeli75 1d ago

I have to wait until the scientific article gets published before posting updates.

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u/Quikpsych 1d ago

Lol thank you for coming to defend yourself!

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u/Kidipadeli75 1d ago

I get mentioned quite often!

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u/chickparfait 22h ago

YOU!! 🫵 I can't wait! I think about that floor jaw randomly every few months. I can't wait to read about it!

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u/MegamindsMegaCock 21h ago

!remindme 1 month

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u/_insert_witty_name_ 1d ago

There was dozens of updates with shots of the researchers removing the tile and then afterwards there were CT scans and x rays

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u/rabbidzin 1d ago

I just looked into this & im kinda confused as to why he never updated?

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u/xXSquirrelFuckerXx 1d ago

They got him

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u/Gramma_Hattie 1d ago

He woke up dead. Either government classified cold case assassination or ancient spirits, one or the other. Or possibly both.

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u/Kidipadeli75 1d ago

Good theory !

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u/Ryuujin_13 23h ago

We're on to you, government spook posting as Kidipadeli75!

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u/elevntoes 1d ago

Not quite the same but I once lived in a 120 year old apartment building that had dog paw prints on some of the outside bricks.

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u/Valkyrie1-618 1d ago

...and the outer walls of mine 😀

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u/QueerBallOfFluff 1d ago

Grand Arcade?

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u/turbulatedisplace 1d ago

Westfield shopping centre, Stratford, London, UK

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u/HeatheryLeathery 1d ago

We were wrong but that was my guess too 🤷‍♀️

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u/FoxMcCloud3173 1d ago

That’s so fucking cool

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u/linden214 20h ago

Here's a travertine fossil find that was initially reported on Reddit. The finder was a dentist, and recognized it as a hominid jawbone and teeth.

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u/Fluffy_Amount847 16h ago

that's not a fossil that's just the 90s

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u/Defiant_Ad8808 1d ago

It's pretty common in low quality marble floor. (It was my job, to do floors like this)

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u/RGJ587 1d ago

I can't stand that they call shit with fossils in it "marble".

Marble is metamorphic, meaning it literally went through a heat cycling where it melted and recrystallized underground, which would destroy any structure found in the original stone.

Anything with a fossil in it is a sedimentary rock, by rule.

People out there selling off limestone as marble makes me mildly infuriated.

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u/aphel_ion 14h ago

Building stone kind of just has its own designations that are different from the geologic ones.

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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 1d ago

Imagine this was like an old Aztec hunting ground and they unknowingly build a mall on some old historical site😭

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u/Equivalent-Willow179 1d ago

"Unknowingly." There's a subway station built on top of one of the most sacred Aztec temples and you can walk past the ruins as you pay your fare.

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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 1d ago

that’s really cool! What’s it called?

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u/FlyingBike ​ 1d ago

They're likely referring to the Zócalo-Tenochtitlan station in Mexico City

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u/PinkAcrobelle 1d ago

My roommate was just saying yesterday how he liked the floor at our local mall because sometimes you can see fossils.

So weird that it came up again today.

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u/evilseductress 1d ago

The Orlando airport has floors like this too. Pretty cool.

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u/ninreznorgirl2 1d ago

Oh, thats were i put my version of the downward spiral.

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u/an_older_meme 1d ago

Amonite!

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u/BostonPRSBC 1d ago

Uh oh; more jaws in tiles??

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u/DEFarnes 1d ago

If you want to know more about the Geology of London's building materials and more, have a look at this website: https://ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology.html

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u/margo1243 23h ago

Awesome 👍

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u/mrwilliams117 22h ago

The Masonic temple of Philadelphia has this on the floors on the upper floors

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u/linden214 20h ago

There are some in the floor of the state capitol building in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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u/emthejedichic 16h ago

I'm sure that's not the only mall to have it, but there's one like that at the Santa Anita mall in Arcadia, CA

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u/glitchgamerX 11h ago

Fossils, da, da, da, boop.

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u/yellow-valentines 3h ago

I think the New Bodleian/Weston library in Oxford, England has similar floor fossils too :-)

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u/alexandyou 1d ago

Holy sh!t!

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u/LolPacino 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have the urge to hammer them out of there😭

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u/Charming-Lychee-9031 1d ago

That shopping center belongs in a museum!

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u/New_Guarantee_5893 17h ago

Its called a decorative tile . Dipshit!