Living fossil

A week or so ago I saw this amazing picture on Pinterest and then found the original on Flickr. This inspired my October Component of the month. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/144396731776123971/ I could just picture how cool it would look with different sizes and shapes of Ammonite on a piece of copper, all over lapping each other. This is the result! As you can see each one is different. Different textures in different places on each piece and the copper colored differently as well. I really…

these critters are damn strange... they only hatch during floods in the desert, from eggs that may be over 20 years old... and yes that is 3 eyes that you see here is a link to the Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_shrimp (i have no idea how to do fancy hyperlinks)

Something went terribly wrong as this ancient ichthyosaur was giving birth, and she died along with her offspring Discovered: South Majiashan, China, 2011 Age: 248 million years Location: Anhui Geological Museum, China

Fossil find pushes back the emergence of animals by millions of years. Andrew Masterson reports.

cittamani: “ Scanned from Ward, P.D. (1988). In Search of Nautilus: Three centuries of scientific adventures in the deep Pacific to capture a prehistoric—living—fossil. New York: Simon and...

From Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos to Disney’s Ursula and Nintendo’s Splatoon, squid and their squad continue to captivate people throughout the ages. They’re survivors, both in nature and in human consciousness. Over the course of 500 million years of their history, cephalopods have left us plenty of traces of their presence.

Preserved soft tissues have helped flesh out our prehistoric knowledge.

Our little habit of wiping out wildlife is going to come back and bite us.

Dinosaur tail fossil | Archaeopteryx Fossil, most primitive bird known

Many living fossils still alive today have bizarre, eccentric traits that make them seem more like aliens than anything from this world.