'The Nation's T. rex': How a Montana mom's hike led to an incredible discovery

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4. Find a local fossil club and go with them

They know where to look and can give you tips.

Though that might not help. My sister is very involved with the Tampa Bay Fossil Club and goes on digs with them and other groups. She's been known to find fossils on the path into major digs - paths that experienced people have walked along every day for years and never saw what she found.

She recently went on a dig in South Dakota and found a hadrosaur fossil and a crocodillian tooth that the people in charge of that site had missed and were amazed at the quality. She found a jaw in 1993 and it turned out to be a new species of smilodon (saber tooth cat) that they named for her since she found the holotype fossil for the species.