FOSSIL HUNTRESS

A lovely fossil turtle,  Desmatochelys cf. D. lowi  (Williston, 1894) found by Richard Bolt in the shales of the Trent River Formation alo...

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

Ichthyosaur Tail Section. Photo: Liam Langley A beautiful piece of ichthyosaur tail section found on the Yorkshire Coast in 2019 by the ...

While they resembled fish and dolphins, Ichthyosaurs were large marine reptiles belonging to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopt...

This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis in 2018. The vertebrae you see here ar...

These two lovely Plesiosaur vertebrae were found by Liam Langley on fossil field trips to the Yorkshire Coast on the east coast of England...

The beauties you see here are ichthyosaurs. The largest of their lineage is the genus Shonisaurus who ruled our ancient seas 217 million y...

Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur by Edouard Riou, 1863 During the early Triassic period, ichthyosaurs evolved from a group of unidentified lan...

Confuciusornis was about the size of a modern pigeon, with a total length of 50 centimetres (1.6 feet) and a wingspan of up to 70 cm (2.3...

In November 1993, Chinese paleontologists Hou Lianhai and Hu Yoaming, of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...

This well-preserved fossil fish skull is from Calamopleurus (Agassiz, 1841), an extinct genus of bony fishes related to the heavily armou...

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterized by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of...

In the summer of 1996, Angelo Zanella, an avocational fossil collector and active collaborator at the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano...

Anemonefish colonies usually consist of the reproductive male and female and a few male juveniles, which help tend the colony. Although ...

The colourful wee fellows you see here are Clown Fish. They have an unusual relationship with sea anemones. Clownfish or anemonefish are f...

Sea anemones are familiar inhabitants of rocky shores and coral reefs around the world; other species can be found at very low depths inde...

Sea Anenome on Coral Reef Sea anemones are a group of predatory marine animals in the order Actiniaria. They are named after the anemone...

Despite the differences between these two ammonites, both represent the same species, Macroscaphites yvani . The difference you see here i...

Having a backbone or spinal column is what sets apart you, me and almost 70,000 species on this big blue planet. So which lucky ducks ev...

Two views of a natural endocranial cast articulated with a fragmentary skull of Australopithecus africanus , an early hominid living betwe...

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