Unidentified medium fossil

Unidentified medium fossil
Released							7 September 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Drop
Examine							A medium-sized paleontological find ready for cleaning.
Values
Value							200 coins
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							0.283 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							21564
Link							MOID

An unidentified medium fossil is a fossil that can be obtained while performing activities on Fossil Island, including:

• 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 200 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

They can be traded to the Fossil Collector in exchange for 200 numulites.

They can also be enriched at the Mycelium pool and then exchanged at the House on the Hill for Prayer experience.

All unidentified fossils can be stored in Fossil Storage crates throughout Fossil Island.

Before players can clean fossils, they must build the cleaning bench east of the Museum Camp using five planks, five nails and a hammer, granting 100 Construction experience. Alternatively, players can use the specimen table in the Varrock Museum.

To clean fossils, players must use the unidentified fossil on the fossil cleaning bench (or specimen table) while wearing leather boots and leather gloves and in possession of a trowel, rock pick and specimen brush. All of these items can be obtained by taking a cleaning kit from the wall in the Varrock Museum's cleaning area. Alternatively, a cleaning kit can be obtained from the crate on fossil island located directly next to the cleaning bench assuming that this cleaning bench is built.

Cleaning unidentified medium fossils will give the player a medium fossilised limbs, spine, ribs, pelvis, or skull. A set of these allows the player to place them in a medium 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 3,500 experience in any skill of level 30 or above, along with 2 kudos per display. A total of 60 medium fossils are required to complete every medium display.

See Fossil Island fossils for strategies on obtaining fossils.

• The fossil appears to resemble the Dome Fossil from the Pokémon franchise.

v t e Fossil Island fossils
Small	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Medium	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Large	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Rare	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull Tusk
Plant	Roots Stump Branch Leaf Mushroom
Unidentified	Small Medium Large Rare
Related	Enriched bones Small Medium Large Rare Fossil Collector Ancient wyvern shield Numulites Varrock Museum Mycelium pool Strange Machine