Fossils

This false fossil is one of Nature’s beautiful illusions — Green Moss Agate is an abundant and beautiful stone with a long history in magical lore. Some gemstones, like Amber, contain genuine fossil remains of once-living organisms trapped in their matrix. That isn’t true of Moss Agate. The so-called “mosses” trapped within the clear Agate are natural manganese or iron…

A large meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic era — Eustreptospondylus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic era about 165–160 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in an area that comprises the present-day counties of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in England. The first fairly complete specimen was found in 1870 and it was mistakenly categorised…

A meat-eating therapod dinosaur that lived in the early Jurassic period — Dilophosaurus was a meat-eating therapod dinosaur that lived about 195–190 million years ago, which was in the early Jurassic period. It was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs that is known about from the fossil evidence. Dilophosaurus was about six or seven metres in length, including its long tail…

Fossil Fascination —

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, a ray-finned fish that lived 319 million years ago — Paleontology is a fascinating science that has offered information on species evolution and the history of life on Earth. One astonishing discovery was made by paleontologist Matt Friedman of the University of Michigan, who discovered the earliest vertebrate brain fossil while examining micro-CT scans.