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The River Swale near Keld, Yorkshire Dales, England by Bob Radlinski

What did South Eastern Australia look like 130 million years ago? This watercolour landscape is part of my on going work recontructing fossils discovered last summer in Boola Boola Forest, Gippsland Victoria. They date back to the Early Cretaceous period - the golden age of the dinosaurs.

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On our dig we found fossils of every species shown in this illustration. The plants in the foreground and fossil shown here is Otozamites douglasii, a member of the cycad-like Bennettitales which are completely extinct now. However the rest of the scene depicts plants that have similar modern decendants: Cladophlebis ferns down low, a forest of conifers including Bellarinea richardsii (Podocarp family), and very tall Brachphyllum tyersensis (Belonging to either the Araucaria or Cypress family).

Man O’ War Bay, Dorset.

The American Museum of Natural History takes you along on a dinosaur dig in the Morrison Formation of the US west, host of many of the famous Jurassic dinosaur bones found in North America.

A columnar basalt staircase from Iceland (was actually not that easy to climb)

Big Thach Nature Park, Russia by Alexander Khoroshilov

growth of a seed

One of my students left her salt water out over the 4 day weekend and these beautiful crystals formed.