Bobbie Stasa holds a stone blade made of agatized coral. She found the prehistoric piece last summer near Yemassee in southern South Carolina.

Florida Florida does not have a dinosaur but its official state stone is fossilized. The "agatized coral" is Florida's state stone.It is agatized coral from between the Oligocene through Miocene age.

Our state gem stone is Lithostrotionella, which is fossilized coral that is 360 million years old. The way things become agatized is through time, heat and pressure. That’s what will separate ...

As someone who loves both fossils and gems/minerals; agatized coral hunting is REALLY growing on me. In this video I team up with PaleoCris and our friend Derek to go look for agatized coral ...

In this video my friends PaleoCris, and Rick (digdivediscover) team up with me to find Agatized Coral Geodes in a river in Georgia! This trip was nostalgic for me, because I grew up about 45 ...

DELAND, Fla. – A new exhibit has opened in the Gillespie Museum at Stetson University. Here are five things you should know about the exhibit. 1. The Agatized Coral and Other Silicified Fossils ...

The agatized egg likely belonged to a titanosaur, which were common in what is now India during the Cretaceous. (Earlier this year, nearly 100 titanosaur nests in India were comprehensively ...