Wild Kyle

Wild Kyle Story-teller, naturalist, and passionate explorer of the history & prehistory of our incredible planet.
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Polished vs. raw Petoskey Stone! It's truly incredible, seeing what these Devonian corals from Michigan become after som...
04/11/2026

Polished vs. raw Petoskey Stone! It's truly incredible, seeing what these Devonian corals from Michigan become after some glacial/lake tumbling and then polishing.

I love these corals both ways for different reasons and it's fun to display them together. What are your favorite polished or raw Petoskey Stones? Share pictures in the comments!

Florida friends! I'll have a booth set up this Friday and Saturday in Reddick, FL for this bottle show! I'll have some b...
04/09/2026

Florida friends! I'll have a booth set up this Friday and Saturday in Reddick, FL for this bottle show! I'll have some bottles as well as tons of cool fossils, geodes, agatized coral, plant fossils, etc. for sale!

If you come to see me make sure you're there earlier in the day on both days. I'll have to leave early both days due to musical performances I have booked.

Come hang out!

04/06/2026

Here's a look at a crazy variety of some amazing rocks and fossils I've been cleaning and organizing today!

From a walk in the woods with my Dad! We found some cool antique bottles, but I think the best find was the 8 point buck...
04/04/2026

From a walk in the woods with my Dad! We found some cool antique bottles, but I think the best find was the 8 point buck skull my Dad found!

It was such an awesome day making memories with my Dad!

Here's one of my all-time favorite Carboniferous era plant fossils. A Lepidodendron "cone", or more specifically a Lepid...
04/04/2026

Here's one of my all-time favorite Carboniferous era plant fossils. A Lepidodendron "cone", or more specifically a Lepidostrobus! It is the spore-bearing reproductive structure of the Lepidodendron (scale tree).

I found this in the Pottsville formation of Alabama, which dates from around 300-320 million years old!

PaleoCris and I recently had the pleasure of taking our new friend Blayde and his family out on a fossil hunting trip. T...
03/31/2026

PaleoCris and I recently had the pleasure of taking our new friend Blayde and his family out on a fossil hunting trip. This was part of their multi-day adventure to Florida through the Make a Wish Foundation. The fact that Blayde wanted to fossil hunt with us as part of it was such an incredible honor.

Blayde's family has a farm/homestead up in Pennsylvania where they make goat milk soaps! They were sweet enough to send some to Cris and I once they got back home. Check out those ingredients! All good, natural stuff without the chemicals of the mass produced garbage at the grocery store!

Y'all give their page a visit! HeeHaw Hill Nigerian Dwarf and KunekunePigs

03/31/2026

Walking a Florida riverbank that's LOADED with amazing fossils!

03/31/2026

Double Brachiopod geode! These little shells have been on quite the journey since they were alive roughly 450 million years ago!

The short version is they went from living creature, to buried, to fossilized, to being filled with calcite crystals, to being exposed on a road cut in Kentucky, to my hands, to a video on the internet. 😂

I've spent some time today brushing a light coat of mineral oil onto some agatized coral fragments. Some pieces dry out ...
03/30/2026

I've spent some time today brushing a light coat of mineral oil onto some agatized coral fragments. Some pieces dry out not so nice compared to what they look like wet, so the oil helps bring that color back out!

The oil will continue to soak in and look less "wet", but the enhanced color will remain. It will eventually have to be re-applied, but it's good for quite a long time in my experience!

03/29/2026

I was exploring a Florida river when THIS happened... Surprise Fossil Finds!

03/29/2026

This is seriously the craziest piece of petrified wood I've ever found! It is Pleistocene in age.

While scuba diving in a Florida river we located an ancient alligator graveyard! The preservation on these fossils is im...
03/28/2026

While scuba diving in a Florida river we located an ancient alligator graveyard! The preservation on these fossils is immaculate due to them coming from an old sinkhole deposit. They're likely dated later in the Pleistocene, between 100,000 - 20,000 years old or so!

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