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.

In Animal Crossing, the fossils must each be individually mailed to a lab that is outside the player's town for identification. In Animal Crossing: Wild World & 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 or an entire, 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.

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 can't 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 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.

Complete Fossil list
In addition to price, size and HRA bonus, this table gives Blathers' speech when the completed fossil is donated to the museum. All fossils have either Old School (WW) or Retro (CF) genres.

Fossil Quick List
Here are all of the fossils in the series in alphabetical order. {|class=sortable border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" ! Fossil|| Price || AC || WW|| CF
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 * Amber || 1200|| ?? || ?? || Y
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 * Ammonite || 1100|| ?? || ?? || Y
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 * Ankylo Skull || 3500|| ?? || ?? || Y
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 * Ankylo Tail || 2500|| ?? || ?? || Y
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 * Ankylo Torso || 3000|| ?? || ?? || Y
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