FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This lovely oil in water coloured ammonite is the beauty Beudanticeras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian), Krasnodar region, Nor...

Paper clams or "flat clams" were widespread in the Triassic. They often dominate the rocks in which they are found, as in these sp...

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

Otodos megalodon with Cam Muskelly in scuba for scale 23-million-years ago to just over 3-million-years ago, the apex predator of the seas ...

An exquisite specimen of the delicately ridged ammonite, Porpoceras verticosum , from Middle Toarcian outcrops adjacent the Rhône in southea...

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Puffins are any of three small species of alcids or auks in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding se...

This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii ammonites hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaragh...

We sometimes find fossils preserved by pyrite. They are prized as much for their pleasing gold colouring as they are for their scientific va...

This beautifully prepped specimen of a Balearites cf. balearis (Nolan, 1984) ammonite is from Upper Hauterivian deposits near Tamri, a smal...

 This marvellous block is filled with Aristoptychites (syn= Arctoptychites ) euglyphus (Mojsisovics, 1886) and Daonella sp., oyster-like s...

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

66 million years ago, dinosaur still roamed the Earth. We know from abundant fossil bones, teeth and trackways that their reign lasted an im...

This partial specimen of Deinotherium giganteum hails from Middle-Upper Miocene, c. 15.97-5.33 Million Years outcrops near Cerecinos de Cam...

Palaeontologist Earl Douglass, 1909 About 150 million years ago, a severe drought ravaged the western interior of North America. In eastern ...

This lovely with her colourful body is an octopus. Like ninety-seven percent of the world's animals, she lacks a backbone.  To support t...

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

This disarticulated fellow is Mammutus primigenius  a Woolly Mammoth from the Pleistocene of Siberia, Russia.  He's now housed in the Mu...

A lovely 5.5 cm specimen of a cut and polished slice of Cenoceras sp . from the Oolite of Ilminster, Somerset, UK. 160 Million years old. J...

Silver tetradrachm coin depicting the owl of Athena (circa 449–413 BCE). The inscription “ΑΘΕ” is an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, which may be ...

A sweet little water bug from the suborder Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810). He looks more like a cartoon character that any other specimen I...

An Eocene Cryptodiran Fossil Turtle, Baena arenosa , from fine-grained lime mud outcrops in the Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA. Thi...

From Russia with Love — a lovely iridescent block of ammonites with  Deshayesites volgensis (Sasonova, 1958), and Aconeceras (Sinzovia) t...

A beautiful example of the decapod, Dorippe sinica , from Holocene deposits near Shizuoka, Japan. This regal fellow has a strongly sculptu...

A stunning example of the heteromorph ammonite, Hyphantoceras orientale macroconch. This beauty corresponds to 'Morphotype C' fro...

A very beautiful Lower Campanian block from Haroto, Hokkaido, Japan. This specimen contains an ancient undersea world at a glance. The b...

Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian) deposits near Sokoja,...

Kwakiutl First Nations assert, when interrogated, that the practice of cannibalism only became general about a hundred years ago.  Europeans...

In the Pacific Northwest, slavery and slave trading was common practice recorded for hundreds of years and likely practised for thousands. T...