u/itsme--jessica

Hello rock enthusiasts! I’m new to this group, and here because my six year old daughter found this rock at the river (north western USA), and she is wholeheartedly convinced that the grooves in it are some sort of fossilized dinosaur claw marks lol.

I feel like that is unlikely, but I also don’t know enough about rocks to tell her she’s wrong, when she’s so excited about it.

Does anyone know what it actually could be? I tried to include angles of it so you could see the depth of the grooves.

PS regardless of what they actually are, there’s a good chance I’m just going to let her keep thinking she found some sort of velociraptor scratching post 😆