FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This stunning specimen with her regal ridges (and small anomaly) is an Apoderoceras ammonite. Apoderoceras are an extinct genus of cepha...

Dinogorgon Rubidgei / Photo: Jonathan Blair / Corbis A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, this th...

Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group / Denman Island The Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of southwest British Columbia is a four-kilometre thic...

Ichnofossil Trackways. Photo credit: Luis Lima. Lisbon Museum Collection

A very well preserved ichthyosaur block with three distinct vertebrae and some ribs just peeking out. You can see the edges of the ribs ni...

Fossil Crocodile, Lisbon Natural History Museum. Photo: Luis Lima This well-preserved fossil crocodile is around 12 million years old an...

An excellent example of the ammonite, Hoplites bennettiana  (Sowby, 1826) with a pathology. This beauty is from Albian deposits near Carri...

This lovely illustration of Megatherium, a fossil sloth discovered in South America was published in 1825 by Georges Cuvier as part of his...

In 1788, this magnificent specimen of a Megatherium sloth was sent to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History from the Viceroyalty of Rio de ...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (and possibly ...

The massive ice sheets of the Pleistocene covered much of the planet. They contained so much of the Earth's water that sea levels drop...

Agriotherium / Short-Faced Bear Fossil remains of Agriotherium, the short-faced giant bear, have been found in Collepardo, Italy. A fr...

A stunning Cambrian soft-bodied Sea Anemone from outcrops near Malong, China. Collection of Marc R. Hänsel

Wanneria dunnae, an impressive trilobite from British Columbia's Eager Formation near Cranbrook. Trilobites were among the earlies...

A beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Cretaceous, characteri...

This fellow is Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, a rather glorious fuxinhuiid arthropod. While he looks like he could be from the inside of t...

If you were a fish living in the warm turquoise waters off the coast of Bonaire, you may not hear those words, but you'd see the shr...

This lovely fellow is a Puffin or "Sea Parrot" from Skomer Island near Pembrokshire in Wales.  They live about 20 years making a...

Ichthyosaurus was an extinct marine reptile first described from fossil fragments found in 1699 in Wales. Shortly thereafter, fossil verte...

This lovely ammonite is Holcophylloceras mediterraneum (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) deposits near Sokoja, Madagasgar. A...

Carcharocles chubutensis , which roughly translates to the "glorious shark of Chubut," from the ancient Greek is an extinct spec...

The Northern Lights over a sea of wildflowers in the marsh near Landmannalaugar, part of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of Ic...

Oxford University Museum of Natural History was established in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the University of Oxfo...

A lovely example of the nautilus, Cératite Nodosus, from Shell Lime Superior deposits near Alsace in northeastern France on the Rhine R...