Fossil Fish & Assorted Marine Beasts
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Fossil Fish, Marine Reptiles, Whales, and other Sea Monsters.
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This three metre long ichthyosaur (fossil marine reptile) was discovered in December 2009 and, following gaining permissions, was extracted in early January 2010 from Broad Ledge, to the east of Lyme Regis. Preparation was complete by the end of July 2010. The ichthyosaur is almost certainly Leptopterygius tenuirostri...
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The skull and lower jaws of an enormous Pliosaur skull discovered on the shores of Weymouth Bay on the Dorset coast over a period of more than five years. All but three pieces were recovered by a single, local collector - goood job!
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The fossilised remains of a huge Pliosaur, one of the largest marine predators to live in the Jurassic sea. The measured skull is 2.1 m long but fully assembled, it would be about 2.4 m and was recovered from a cliff fall over a period of about 5 years almost entirely by a single fossil collector. The beast was foun...
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The geology gallery explores the rich local fossils and the extraordinary history of science behind their early discovery and study. Mary Anning and the Anning family of Lyme Regis, plays a central part of this story.
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Tiny Jurrasic fossil lizard head photographed through a microscope. The original is about 12mm long.
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Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, Reebe formation, Liaoning Province, Manchuria, N.E. China. This fin is about 10mm (0.4 in) long. The whole fish is 85mm. You can see it here: www.byteswithbite.co.uk/kilgore/org/misc/fullfish.jpg
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This pano is the result of an evening's play with Chris's Brunel MX1 stereo 20...-
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A whale skeleton which is on display on the second floor of the science building at Portland State University. There are other very interesting skeletons on display such as a Grizzley bear, Zebra, Lion, Python etc. I took this photograph with a Canon G9 utilizing a Gigapan robot and stitched it with the Gigapan 4.386...
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A wall in the Prehistoric Journey exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science highlighting the giant predator fish Xiphactinus audax, as well as other fishes, a mosasaur (Platycarpus caryphaeus), an icthyosaur (Stenopterygius quadriscissus), and a sea turtle (Protostega gigas).
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This sperm whale skeleton is on display in the Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association. It came from a 46 foot long bull sperm whale that beached on Jan 1, 1998 at Sconset's Low Beach. Many Nantucketers participated in the messy process of extracting and preparing the bones for display. Tools from t...
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Fossils in a stone block in one of the walls on the campus of FHSU. Many of these limestones are quarried locally - the fossils accumulated along with lime mud on the floor of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway some 80 million years ago. Something unusual happened during the stitch - the image was stretched hor...
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