FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Libonectes atlasense / Andy Chua Collection A beautifully preserved mandible of  Libonectes atlasense , an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from...

Geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress. If you love paleontology, you will love this stream. Dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites—you'll fi...

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...

Long before whales began singing through the oceans—and while dinosaurs were still finding their feet on land—sleek, sharp-toothed reptiles ...

Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis The Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis , was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Ple...

Standing in the Age of Mammals Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is one of the most delightfully perplexing mammals e...

Massetognathus pascuali There are fossils that appear fierce. There are fossils that look dignified, mysterious or magnificently prehistoric...

Coyote, Canis latrans Dire wolves vanished. Sabre-toothed cats vanished. American lions, western camels, native horses and giant ground slot...

Pick up a fossil and you are holding evidence of a life. Not merely an old rock. Not an attractive geological paperweight. Not something the...