fms.fossils
Here was a lucky little find from today’s fossil hunt on Charmouth beach. This is a pyrite ammonite of the species Echioceras raricostatum. They are preserved in very soft shale, as you can see, which means that they come out in one piece very easily. Usually, the sea pulls them out of the rocks and dumps them on the beach. This can easily damage or destroy them. This one has a thin calcite shell on top of the pyrite which would have been removed by the sea almost instantly if it had got to it before I did. This fossil is around 196 million years old.
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Kelston Boys’ High School perform a massive haka in honour of the new Maori carving on campus
Extremely Rare Fossil Turtle - Green River Formation, Rocky Mountains, USA
Fossil turtles from the Green River Formation are extremely rare. This is a well preserved, fifty million-year-old Trionyx softshell turtle in limestone. It was found in the upper layers of the F-1 Green River Formation. The stone also contains 9 small Knightia eocaena and a small Diplomystus dentatus.
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Catzillas: Giant Cats In Urban Landscapes
Indonesian artist Fransdita Muafidin publishes a series of photomontages with kittens and fat adult cats among the urban landscapes from around the world.
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