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Cadoceras (Paracadoceras) tonniense This lovely ammonite is Cadoceras (Paracadoceras) tonniense (Imlay, 1953), a fast-moving nektonic c...

The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geol...

One of the first scientific accounts of a well-preserved woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) frozen in Siberia described the meat as en...

Sunsets — pure visual poetry: peaceful, meditative, mesmerizing. What is sunlight, actually? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so muc...

An unusual Yorkshire Holderness ammonite about 5cm across found by Harry Tabiner. He’s found a few of these specimens preserved completely...

A lovely specimen of fossilized coral. Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically li...

Coral colony and Soldier Fish, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phyl...

A large extinct bivalved arthropod, Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in beau...

This lovely specimen is Zeacrinites magnoliaeformis , an Upper Mississippian-Chesterian crinoid found by Keith Metts in the Glen Dean Form...

Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras ) ponticuli from the Subbético Externo de Córdoba, a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite. This classical Tethyan...

This specimen of Phylloceras velledae (Michelin) has a shell with a small umbilicus, arched, acute venter, and at some growth stage, falco...

Septarian Nodule, Dan Bowen, 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show An exceptional polished septarian nodule with an ammonite heart. Septarian...

Ammonites were prolific breeders that evolved rapidly. If you could cast a fishing line into our ancient seas, it is likely that you wou...

There is tremendously robust suturing on this lovely ammonite, Holcophylloceras mediterraneum , (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordi...

A stunning example of the ammonite Androgynoceras from the Yorkshire Coast, England. The Geology of Yorkshire in northern England shows...

Looking out over the Middle Triassic exposures of the Humboldt Mountain Range. These hills were the site of the 1905 Expedition of the U...

Ammonites first appeared about 240 million years ago, though they descended from straight-shelled cephalopods called bacrites that date back...

Hornby is a delightful island off the east coast of Vancouver Island, just east of Denman Island. Texada and Lasqueti lie just to the west...

This little cutie is a Western European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaus , in the subfamily Erinaceinae (Fischer, 1814). They are native to we...

This beautiful block, an ancient Still Life of the Jurassic (Callovian) hails from outcrops near Anwil, a municipality in the district of ...

Paléontologie Française: Alcide d'Orbigny L'un des grands classiques, Paléontologie Française: Zoologique Et Géologique de Tous...

The oldest and most primitive pteraspidomorphs were the Astraspida and the Arandaspida . They evolved in shallow equatorial seas, as a ...

A tremendously delicate juvenile Hamites subrotundus  (J. Sowerby 1814) from Upper Albian outcrops in Mallorca, the largest of the Spanish...

Back in 2009, Jörg Maletz from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, did a paper looking at the Les Méchins region i...

Graptolites (Graptolita) are a group of colonial animals known primarily from Ordovician deposits. The biological affinities of the grapto...

A beautiful example of two water-worn specimens of the gastropod Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791) captured after a storm captured b...

This beautiful ammonite is Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus  (Thieuloy, 1977) sharing a large boulder with a delicate, straight-shelle...

This concretion contains a partially exposed Rhacolepis Buccalis , an extinct genus of ray-finned fossil fish in carbonate concretion from...

A mother humpback and her young charge. Mothers show a tremendous amount of affection and love to their young, often swimming so close tog...

Fossil Whale Bone Oligocene Fossil Whale vertebrae from Majestic Beach, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. These lovely water-w...