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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 7 months ago
1 year, 7 months ago1 year, 7 months agoAn Introduction to Ammonites from the Kimmeridge Clay
We have numerous different ammonites in the Kimmeridge Clay so this week we are showing off some of our hidden specimens. This also illustrates one of things that makes our collection so important and that is the vast amount of reference material we have collected.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 8 months ago
1 year, 8 months ago1 year, 8 months agoRare Fossils – Kimmeridgian Crinoids and Ophiuroids
In this weeks video we are discussing Crinoids and Ophiuroids they are a little bit different here to what you find in the lias rocks!
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 8 months ago
1 year, 8 months ago1 year, 8 months agoThe First Bird – An Introduction to Archaeopteryx
In this weeks video we discuss something a little bit different. Archaeopteryx. Archaeopteryx is known from the Solnhofen limestone which dates nearly as far back in time as us here in the Kimmeridgian, we share a lot of similar species so what’s to say we wont find some amazing bird…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 8 months ago
1 year, 8 months ago1 year, 8 months agoA Plesiosaur Limb Bone – Fossil Dredging
In this weeks video Dr Steve Etches MBE briefly discusses A plesiosaur limb bone and how it was found through during scallop dredging.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 8 months ago
1 year, 8 months ago1 year, 8 months agoShark Week! – An Unbelievably Rare Fossilised Shark Skull
It’s shark week! and for this years shark week we are talking about what is objectively our coolest shark fossil. A complete 3D shark skull. Shark fossils are incredibly rare other than their teeth. Which makes a 3D skull all the more rare!
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 9 months ago
1 year, 9 months ago1 year, 9 months agoOur Largest Ammonite – New Discoveries 2022
In our latest video watch as Dr Steve Etches MBE discusses the newest addition to our displays. This enormous ammonite! This was initially found by museum friend Philip Jacobs, you may know him from his incredible Ichthyosaur Britney.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 9 months ago
1 year, 9 months ago1 year, 9 months agoFinding a Massive Vertebra – Fossil Hunting in a Quarry
We managed to head back to a quarry and check out what had been revealed after weathering. We discovered some amazing things including a huge Pliosaur Vert!
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 9 months ago
1 year, 9 months ago1 year, 9 months agoFossil Preparation – A Pliosaur Vertebra
In this weeks video watch as Dr Steve Etches MBE as he prepares an amazing specimen. A cervical vertebra from a Pliosaur.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 9 months ago
1 year, 9 months ago1 year, 9 months agoFossil Hunting – Recent finds from the Jurassic Coast
In this weeks video, Dr Steve Etches MBE is out fossil hunting again and we made a series of finds, Check out what we got up to!
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 9 months ago
1 year, 9 months ago1 year, 9 months agoThe Skull of a giant Ichthyosaur
In this video Dr Steve Etches MBE talks about what may be the largest complete skull of a Kimmeridgian Ichthyosaur anywhere. Ichthyosaurs grew huge, particularly massive during the late Triassic, Early Jurassic times. There is evidence of the growing up to 26 meters long. In the whole Kimmeridgian Ichthyosaurs…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoThe Limb of a Jurassic Monster
In this video Dr Steve Etches MBE discusses a real Jurassic Monster Stretosaurus Macromerus. This Limb was found back in the 60s and is still to this day an incredible find. This Specimen is on display in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is part of the Cambridge…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoThe Jaw of a Pliosaur – Cambridge University Museums: Sedgwick Museum
In this weeks video Steve describes an incredible Pliosaur Jaw, this jaw is on display in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is part of the Cambridge University Museums and is host to a huge catalogue of fossil material.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoThe Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, located on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset is exploring the possibilities of Life on Mars in its latest online lecture, scheduled for Friday, June 24th @ 7pm. Humanity has been narrowing in on the red planet since Galileo first pointed his telescope at it 5…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoPreparing an Ichthyosaur in 2 Minutes
This week we have something rather special for you all. This, as far as we know is the only film of it’s kind. A start to finish time-lapse of the preparation of an Ichthyosaur. This fossil preparation details more than 100 hours of work on more than 40 days. This specimen arrived with us in June 2021…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoAre you ready for fossil fame…?
With the Children’s Fossil Competition well underway and entries coming in thick and fast, we are sifting through the submissions and the competition is hotting up!
Our team are REALLY impressed with all the videos and papers that we have received so far. With just 2 months left the team is recommending that i…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 10 months ago
1 year, 10 months ago1 year, 10 months agoA Fossil Reunion – Fossil Hunting
In this video watch as Dr. Steve Etches works tirelessly to remove a fossil from a large block of stone, this is was one of his more challenging fossils to prepare as the stone is full of faults taking more than hour to actually extract. Steve also discovers there is a unique relationship between this fossil…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 11 months ago
1 year, 11 months ago1 year, 11 months agoIn this video we do something a little different. We make ink from fossilised squid ink. This is something that has been done before (by Mary Anning herself none the less!) but not from specimens of the Kimmeridge Clay. We are exploring ideas for the future of our ink, this will involve lots of refining to improve…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 11 months ago
1 year, 11 months ago1 year, 11 months agoFinding a Plesiosaur Tooth and More…
In our latest video we are fossil hunting and manage to make a few more finds than we normally do. One of which is a rare Plesiosaur tooth, It’s from a Kimmerosaurus and is one of only two teeth we have in the collection from this genus of Plesiosaur.
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 11 months ago
1 year, 11 months ago1 year, 11 months agoOnline Lecture: Mass Extinctions, Missing Links and other Myths of Evolution
Join us on May 27th 2022 for this lecture where Professor Simon Conway Morris will discuss a vast array of Earths evolutionary history including mass extinctions, missing links and more. Explore some of the well known and the lesser known events and myths from…[Read more]
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Nick Meacham posted an update in the group The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life 1 year, 11 months ago
1 year, 11 months ago1 year, 11 months agoWhat was our most recent find? It’s a pyritic fossil fish. Yes another fishy video. Steve is a big fan of fossil fish. They’re a little bit of a neglected part of the vertebrate fossil group but are equally as important to telling the stories of the Kimmeridgian eco system. As with everything we collect, it’s done…[Read more]
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