Discover strange facts about fossils: pterodactyls, trilobites, Tiktaalik, ammonites, and the petrified remains that reveal 540 million years of...
Discover how fossils preserve the story of ancient life, from amber-trapped insects to transitional species. Learn about fossilization, dating methods, Mary Anning, and digital paleontology.
Everything about Archaeopteryx: the Late Jurassic Urvogel, its dinosaur and bird traits, the Solnhofen fossils, black feather pigmentation, discovery history, and why it remains the most iconic transitional fossil ever found.
Everything about trilobites: their 270 million year Paleozoic run, three-lobed bodies, mineralised calcite eyes, 22,000 described species, defensive enrolment, and their disappearance in the end-Permian mass extinction.
Everything about Pterodactylus antiquus: the first pterosaur ever described, its Late Jurassic Solnhofen habitat, 1-metre wingspan, fish diet, pycnofibre coat, and why the word 'pterodactyl' is a misleading catch-all for all pterosaurs.
Everything about the ichthyosaur: temporal range, anatomy, dolphin-like convergent evolution, live birth, Mary Anning's 1811 discovery at Lyme Regis, Ophthalmosaurus giant eyes, and why these extinct marine reptiles vanished 30 million years before the dinosaurs.
