Mammoth Tusks, 7.5 feet around the curve PachycephalosaurusMammoths belong to the order Proboscidea, which also includes the American Mastodon and the African and Indian Elephant. The larger species of Mammoth, which appeared about 4 MYA, became extinct about 10,000 years ago, while some of the smaller species existed until about 4,000 years ago. The specimen here is a Woolly Mammoth discovered in Alaska. The Woolly Mammoth is well studied, as several well preserved specimens have been found; it also appears
a natural endocast of the braincase
The teeth in the back rows were replacement teeth
Hassan Amjad
super soft hand-feel and side-seamed
which is an extra hard form of plaster
It may also have been a scavenger
Brittle stars are a type of starfish that are uniquely classified in their own group called Ophiuroidea
Dinosaurs ruled the earth and pterosaurs ruled the skies when this fish swam amidst the depths of a Cretaceous sea
Stratigraphy: Francis Creek Shale Member
Grallator is an ichnogenus (form taxon based on footprints) which covers a common type of small
The first comprehensivce book on the fossils of West Virginia
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral