Microfossils are those fossils that require a microscope to carry out fundamental identification. They are the fossils of a biologically diverse group of organisms, including microscopic algae, protists, and invertebrates,…

If you were to ask my wife when plants first evolved, she would answer without hesitation (in a mock pompous voice) “land plants didn’t evolve until the Silurian”! She is…

I fell in love with fossils like many others, as a child, hunting on the world-famous Jurassic Coast in Dorset in the UK, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and location…

In the first article in this series, I highlighted the staggering breadth of utility that fossils have, from academic research to applied industrial analysis, value in commercial trade and preservation…

You could be forgiven for thinking Mary was the first to discover ichthyosaur and plesiosaur fossils, but specimens of ichthyosaur vertebrae and propodial (limb) bones and pliosaur vertebral centra were…