Thursday, 31 May 2018

Museums: Hauff Museum, Holzmaden

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In this series I would like to share photographs of fossils and exhibitions from museums that I have visited. There won't be a lot to sa...

Ichthyosaur Preparation Diary #1

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BEFORE: The underside is the side  that I  will be preparing from,  far too much rock for a small drill to get through. The first maj...

Dotternhausen and the Posidonia Schieffer

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While on my third year residential fieldtrip to Southern Germany we visited to early Jurassic strata known as the Posidonia schieffer (shale...
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Bat's Head to Mupe Bay Mapping

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In the final part of the Dorset fieldtrip I would like to discuss the section of coast between Bat's Head and Mupe Bay. This will includ...
Saturday, 26 May 2018

Lyme Regis (and a passing visit to Charmouth)

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In this second part to the Dorset Fieldwork I will show you all the world famous Lyme Regis Lias outcrops. These were incredibly interesting...
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Friday, 25 May 2018

Kimmeridge Bay and Etches' Collection

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In this series I want to share three residential fieldtrips that I went on during my time at University. In these I will discuss the geology...

Getting Back on Track

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Lately, I have neglected this blog completely, all due to being in my final year of my Palaeontology degree, but now that is all done with I...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

The Thames Group of Whitecliff Bay

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After completing my dissertation fieldwork at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight, I will cover the sedimentology and palaeontology of the ...
Saturday, 27 August 2016

Mammoth Extinction

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The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna is a heavily debated topic, was it over hunting by man or was it climate change? We now have th...
Thursday, 25 August 2016

Pleistocene Settlement at Creswell Crags

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Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, UK, is a limestone gorge where settlements from the Pleistocene have been discovered. Although the caves were ...

The Fossilisation Process

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When a land dwelling vertebrate dies its carcass is commonly disarticulated, this means its limbs are removed, often by predators and scaven...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Buttercup the Mammoth

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Natural mummies have been found in a variety of locations around the world; bog deposits or tar pits, deep inside caves, glacier ice and in ...

Pleistocene Mammal Defences

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Tusks: A Mammoth could have used its tusks to defend itself like the modern day African Elephant. They would have been used to keep predato...