Unidentified small fossil

Unidentified small fossil
Detailed
Release date	7 September 2017 (Update)
Members only	Yes
High Alchemy	Unknown
Low Alchemy	Unknown
Destroy	Drop
Store price	100Mermaid's tears (Mairin)
Weight	0.125 kg
Drop Rate	Unknown
Drops From	Unknown
Examine	A small paleontological find ready for cleaning.
Examine	A small paleontological find ready for cleaning.

An unidentified small fossil is a fossil that can be obtained while performing certain activities on Fossil Island:

• Obtaining one as a drop from monsters on the island.
• Chopping Sulliuscep mushrooms in the Tar Swamp.
• Tracking a herbiboar's tracks in the Mushroom Forest.
• Looting giant clam shells and treasure chests underwater.
• Purchasing one from Mairin in her shop for 100 mermaid's tears.
• Mining the boulder while in the Volcanic Mine.
• Looting drift nets
• Digging in the soil at the Museum Camp
• Opening a Bowl of fish

In addition, after helping reconstruct the Museum Camp, a player can claim 5 unidentified small fossils from Peter, whom can be found panning just west of the camp.

They can be traded to the Fossil Collector in exchange for 100 numulites.

Cleaning

Before players can clean fossils, they must build the cleaning bench east of the Museum Camp using five planks and five nails while having a hammer and saw in their inventory, granting 100 Construction experience.

To clean fossils, players must use the unidentified fossil on the fossil cleaning bench while wearing leather boots, leather gloves, trowel, rock pick and specimen brush. Players can also clean fossils at the specimen table in the Varrock Museum.

Cleaning unidentified small fossils will give the player a small fossilised limbs, spine, ribs, pelvis, or skull. A set of these allows the player to place them in a small display in the Varrock Museum's paleontology exhibit, located at the bottom floor of the museum, below the natural history exhibit. Doing so will give an antique lamp that gives 2,000 experience in any skill above level 20, along with 2 kudos per display.

Dropping monsters

See Fossil Island fossils for strategies on obtaining fossils.

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Deranged archaeologist	276	1	3; Uncommon (12/350=3.4%)
Ancient Wyvern	210	1	3; Uncommon (12/350=3.4%)
Spitting Wyvern	139	1	3; Uncommon (10/350=2.9%)
Taloned Wyvern	147	1	3; Uncommon (10/350=2.9%)
Long-tailed Wyvern	152	1	3; Uncommon (10/350=2.9%)
Ancient Zygomite	109	1	3; Uncommon (7/350=2%)
Lobstrosity	68	1	3; Uncommon (5/350=1.4%)
Tar Monster	132	1	3; Uncommon (5/350=1.4%)
Hoop Snake	19	1	4; Rare (3/350=0.86%)
Ammonite Crab	25	1	4; Rare (3/350=0.86%)

Trivia

• The fossil appears to be the F-shaped form of the Pokémon Unown.