ZRS Fossils and Gifts

04/22/2026

Two favorite quotes for Earth Day -

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.”
~ Chief Seattle

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
~ Jane Goodall

03/26/2026

Heads-Up, Rockhounds!!
Great show in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this weekend (March 28th & 29th) - just an easy day trip away. 😊

03/12/2026

2025 Montana Fieldtrip -- so much fun & excitement hunting for fossils in the beautiful Montana badlands. Many discoveries made of amazing ammonites, mother-of-pearl clams, dinosaurs bones & teeth and fabulous agatized fossil wood. Everyone's vehicles returned home much heavier than when they arrived!! Next Montana trip is scheduled for July 25th & 26th. Contact ZRS for details.

03/12/2026

03/12/2026

Fantastic fossil fun for everyone on our last 2025 Iowa Fieldtrip! This is a day trip spent collecting late Devonian marine fossils from TWO different sites. There are nearly 200 different species of marine invertebrates & micro-fossils described from these areas. NEXT Iowa Fieldtrip is scheduled for June 20th, 2026. Call ZRS for details!

03/12/2026

Every picture tells a story!! And there are SO many stories to tell from our 2025 Spring Moroccan GeoTour. Just getting images sorted out ... many more to be added to this album in days ahead!

03/12/2026

Memories from our ZRS Moroccan GeoTour Fall 2024

02/14/2026

Happy Valentines Day!
If you're looking for a special gift for your sweetie, you'll find lots of cool carvings, fantastic jewelry items, wowfull crystals and inspirational love stones at ZRS Fossils and Gifts today - open from Noon to 6pm!

02/11/2026

We are celebrating Darwin's birthday at ZRS this Thursday thru Saturday with a fabulous 25% OFF FOSSIL SALE on all of our ammonites, trilobites, dino material, fossil jewelry, polished fossils, carved fossil items, sculptures, unique specimens of all species --- everything fossiliferous regularly priced over $20. This is a GREAT time to find your fossil-related bargains throughout the store!

01/28/2026

Minneapolis residents aren’t just pushing back against Trump’s crackdown—they’re undercutting MAGA’s core philosophy, Adam Serwer reports from Minneapolis.
https://theatln.tc/n1bQBkgi

“The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions,” Serwer argues. “The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible.”

Earlier this year, J. D. Vance said in a speech that “social bonds form among people who have something in common.” But this has been proved wrong in Minneapolis, Serwer writes: The vice president’s remarks “are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.”

“A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling,” Serwer continues. Although this may be the case for some on the left, “it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life,” Serwer argues.

Third is that the “MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong,” Serwer continues. “The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.”

“No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor,” Serwer argues. “These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.”

📸: Jack Califano for The Atlantic