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Blathers identifying a fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains of a prehistoric plant or animal, encased in rock over thousands of years. Fossils in the Animal Crossing series can be found on occasion around the player's town, buried under the soil with a tell-tale crack in the ground above it. Unidentified fossils can be dug up with a shovel; after which it can be taken to the museum or mailed away for identification, sold, placed in a house, or discarded.

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A Player uncovering a fossil in Animal Crossing

In Animal Crossing and Template:AFe+, the fossils must each be individually mailed to the Faraway Museum that is outside the player's town for identification. In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, it can be identified by Blathers, the curator, free of charge. Upon being identified, it can be donated or returned to the Player's inventory. In Wild World, there are 52 fossils to be collected, all forming a part of a dinosaur, early mammal, aquatic reptile, or an entire, yet smaller, fossil. After being completed, Blathers gives a small but interesting talk on the finished fossil, while the fossil itself has its scientific name and the period in history that it lived in written next to the exhibit.

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A section of the fossil display in the City Folk museum

On average, you can find three fossils in your town per day. However, if your town is overrun with weeds or covered with patterns, this leaves less space for a fossil to be underground (a fossil cannot be under rocks, where a flower or tree is, etc.) and you may not find some or any that day. Other items may also be buried underground.

Fossils as furniture items

Fossils may also be displayed in your house and provide large boosts for HRA scoring. Stand alone fossils (trilobite, egg, amber, etc.) provide small boosts, skulls provide a big boost and a completed skeleton gives the highest. As furniture, all fossils have either Old School (Wild World) or Retro (City Folk) genres.

Multi-part fossils

Name	Sell Price	HRA Points	Feng Shui	Size (sq)	Game(s)
Ankylosaurus
Ankylo Skull	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Ankylo Tail	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Ankylo Torso	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Apatosaurus
Apato Skull	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Apato Tail	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Apato Torso	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon Skull	5,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Dimetrodon Tail	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Dimetrodon Torso	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Ichthyosaur
Icthyo Skull	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Icthyo Torso	2,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Iguanodon
Iguanodon Skull	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Iguanodon Tail	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Iguanodon Torso	3,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Mammoth
Mammoth Skull	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Mammoth Torso	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Pachycephalosaurus
Pachy Skull	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Pachy Tail	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Pachy Torso	3,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Parasaur
Parasaur Skull	3,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Parasaur Tail	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Parasaur Torso	3,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Plesiosaur
Plesio Neck	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Plesio Skull	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Plesio Torso	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Pteranodon
Ptera Body	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	2	WW
Ptera Left Wing	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	2	AC, WW, CF
Ptera Right Wing	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	2	AC, WW, CF
Ptera Skull	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	2	AC, WW, CF
Sabretooth Tiger
Sabretooth Skull	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Sabretooth Torso	2,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Seismosaur
Seismo Chest	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Seismo Hip	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Seismo Skull	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Seismo Tail	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	WW, CF
Stegosaur
Stego Skull	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Stego Tail	4,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Stego Torso	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Styracosaurus
Styraco Skull	3,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Styraco Tail	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Styraco Torso	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Triceratops
Tricera Skull	5,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Tricera Tail	4,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Tricera Torso	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Tyrannosaurus Rex
T-Rex Skull	6,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
T-Rex Tail	5,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
T-Rex Torso	5,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	AC, WW, CF
Velociraptor
Raptor Skull	3,000	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF
Raptor Torso	2,500	1,000	Brown (x2)	4	CF

Fossils can also help get the player a large sum of money.

Stand-alone fossils

Name	Sell Price	HRA Points	Feng Shui	Size (sq)	Game(s)
Amber	1,200	300	Orange/Brown	1	AC, WW, CF
Ammonite	1,100	300	Gray/Brown	1	AC, WW, CF
Archaeopteryx	1,300	300	Brown (x2)	1	WW, CF
Coprolite	1,100	300	Gray/Brown	1	CF
Dino Droppings	1,100	300	Gray/Brown	1	WW
Dinosaur Egg	1,400	300	Gray/Brown	1	AC, WW, CF
Dinosaur Track	1,000	300	Gray/Brown	1	AC, WW, CF
Fern Fossil	1,000	300	Gray/Brown	1	WW, CF
Peking Man	1,100	300	Gray/Brown	1	WW, CF
Shark Tooth	1,000	300	Gray/Brown	1	WW, CF
Trilobite	1,300	300	Gray/Brown	1	AC, WW, CF