mystery object
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008Hi Science Girl, you've probably received tons of emails from other geologists, but your mystery object is an ammonite fossil, a nautiloid sea creature which lived between the Silurian/Devonian (ca. 400 million years ago) and became extinct with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous (65 Ma). Definitely one of the more spectacular fossils! Nice photos and content on your site by the way.
Cheers,
Jacques
Geologist
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: Natural History Museum, London, England, mystery object, travel
Mystery object at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
When racing through the Natural History Museum in London, I photographed this object and forgot to photograph the plaque that provided information about it. Besides showing this to you because it is beautiful and because I want to pique your interest in seeing the huge number of Natural History Museum images I will be posting soon, I would also be pleased if you could give me and my other readers more…