You can see where impressively spiny Ceratocephala got its name, which comes from the Greek for ‘horn head’ #TrilobiteTuesday

#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMystery Have you heard the tale of "The Sheldon Duck"?🦆 In 1601 a duck flew into an Ash tree and never left! Sometime later the "duck tree" was chopped down due to rot at the bottom and this fascinating imprint the size of a real duck was exposed.🌳🪓

Yes, I've shared this image before - and I'll share it again! Easily the most majestic #trilobite I've ever held in my own hands, this remarkable 34 cm long Paradoxides davidis comes from Middle #Cambrian rocks at Manuels River, #Newfoundland, #Canada. #TrilobiteTuesday

I’ve come to Creswell Crags, where the story of British art started, some 12,000 years ago…

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, + that rewilding reverses nature loss. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Incredible helicopter view of the new eruption in Iceland 😍

Video showing the lava taking over the Blue Lagoon car park....

This morning’s view of the new eruption in Iceland. Stunning 🤩 Link to livestream below #Iceland #IcelandVolcano

It's really quite simple; If we had more #beavers in our landscape, we'd have fewer flooded homes and flooded businesses...

I didn't realize how big the roots of #pliosaur teeth were. This one is from the Britton Fm (Eagle Ford Group) on the grounds of DFW airport. What a chunker of a #plesiosaur tooth! #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossils #Cretaceous Perot Museum

This #TrilobiteTuesday, one of my favorite Middle Cambrian #trilobites from Manuels River, #Newfoundland: the very rare Anopolenus henrici. Almost complete, but the genal spines (projecting back from the sides of the head) have come off; one of them is lying across the thorax.

Trilobites with antennae are as unnerving to me as dinosaurs with feathers. What an amazing fossil!

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Not the most obscure, but there are fossils of jewel beetles from Messel (Eocene Germany) that still shine 🪲✨

Wonderful footage of beavers reinforcing their dam. As ecosystem engineers they excel at building and maintaining dams. When water levels rise or damage occurs, they instinctively repair them within 24–48 hours, keeping habitats resilient and functional. All at no cost to humans.

Fantastic dinosaur trackway in Oxfordshire soon to be featured on ⁦⁦Prof Alice Roberts💙⁩ Digging For Britain on 8th Jan bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Prof Alice Roberts talking about recently discovered dinosaur footprints is the story I need to hear having watched three different Jurassic Park movies over Christmas and the New Year 😬 Can't wait to see the episode of Digging for Britain with Prof Alice Roberts💙 on BBC 2

Hear more about this discovery made by researchers from University of Oxford and Birmingham incl. Professor in Micropalaentology Prof. Kirsty Edgar, also the Chair of the Lapworth Museum Management Group, and Professor of Palaeobiology Richard Butler, previous Academic Keeper at the Museum 👇

Huge eruption of Etna Volcano in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 (12.02.2025)

Photo from our archives of flat as a #pancake trilobite Ogygiocarella, inspiration for original ID of these fossils as flatfish! #PancakeDay 🥞#TrilobiteTuesday