Are 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]

A 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]

Making Fossil Squid Ink 

In 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]

Finding 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.

Feel free to check out this video (link in title)…[Read more]