Fossil Day

Explore the Virginia Living Museum’s non-living collections and uncover Virginia’s natural history! Prepare and identify all types of fossils found in Virginia! Search through materials to find marine animals that existed here millions of years ago. Keep an eye out for Virginia’s very own state fossil, Chesapecten jeffersonius! Fossils play an important role in understanding our past. When we identify animals that existed millions of years ago, we see how they evolved into the animals we know and love today!