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Fossils!. Founded 2010 · 135.9K members

135.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 44.6K upvotes, which works out to 330 per 1,000 members.

330peak upvotes per 1,000 members
135.1Kmembers
44.6Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
998posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Gallery 59% Image 30% Link 5% Video 4% Text 1% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house

↑ 44.6K 💬 3.1K image 2024

am i stupid or are there fossils in my floor !?

↑ 22.3K 💬 657 gallery 2026

Update: I found a mandible in the travertine floor at my parents house

↑ 20.9K 💬 615 gallery 2024

What a find! A beautiful woolly mammoth tooth 🤩

↑ 18.2K 💬 202 video 2026

Ten years of beach combing I've never found anything this good, my boyfriend found it within ten minutes of arriving

↑ 16.2K 💬 162 gallery 2026

I just have to brag

↑ 15.3K 💬 288 gallery 2025

UPDATE : Tile number 2. Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house…

↑ 12.1K 💬 443 image 2024

Travertine crab fossil in my collection

↑ 11.3K 💬 194 image 2024

What is this? Found in my late uncle's stuff

↑ 10.4K 💬 420 gallery 2025

First meg tooth i found today! Found another one just 6 mins later :)

↑ 9.2K 💬 97 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/fossils, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/fossils?
r/fossils ("Fossils!") is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2010 and has 135.9K members.
How many members does r/fossils have?
r/fossils has about 135.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 998 of its posts; the biggest reached 44.6K upvotes, which is 330 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/fossils?
"Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house" reached 44.6K upvotes and 3.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/fossils.
What subreddits are similar to r/fossils?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/topofreddit, r/PopCultureV2.
What kind of posts do best on r/fossils?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are gallery posts and 30% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/fossils?
Across 998 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 09:00 UTC (11.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 09:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/fossils?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/fossils has 5.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 49 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/fossils, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.