Oil in Water Beauty: Euhoplites of Folkstone

Oil in Water Beauty: Euhoplites of Folkstone

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing chunkiness and oil-in-water coloring. Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower…
Carnotaurus sastrei: Flesh Eating Bull

Carnotaurus sastrei: Flesh Eating Bull

Carnotaurus sastrei, a genus of large theropod dinosaurs that roamed the southern tip of Argentina, South America during the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 69.9 million years ago. His name means "flesh-…
Fossils, Limestone And Salt: Hallstatt

Fossils, Limestone And Salt: Hallstatt

The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more than 500 ammonite species. Along with diversified cephalopod fauna  — orthoceratids, nautiloids…
Driftwood Canyon Fossil Beds

Driftwood Canyon Fossil Beds

Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hectares of the Bulkley River Valley, on the east side of Driftwood Creek, a tributary of the Bulkley River, 10 km northeast of the town of Smithers in…
Sometimes A Fossil Plant Is A Fossil Baby Turtle

Sometimes A Fossil Plant Is A Fossil Baby Turtle

A new study re-examined these “plant” fossils from the mid-20th century and found that they weren’t plants at all: they were the fossilized remains of baby turtles. The plants in question had been…