The Man Who Made Fossil Fish Famous
Our Archaeopteryx show has bedazzling fossils – the only Archaeopteryx skeleton in the New World, complete with clear impressions of feathers. Plus frog-mouthed pterodactyls, fast-swimming Sea Crocs,...
View ArticleShark Progressives in the Jurassic Period
Maybe you have heard this Shark Myth: The Great White is a Living Fossil, a man-eating hold-over from the dim reaches of time. No. It is true that the oldest sharks do go back to 400 million years...
View ArticleThe Ghost Sharks of The Jurassic
Fish Pieced Together by Committee Our HMNS at Sugar land exhibition on Archaeopteryx is festooned with splendid finny fossils, the ichthyological gems of the Late Jurassic. Some of the Jurassic fish...
View ArticleYour questions, answered: Do we know when chimaeras shifted to deep-water...
Earlier this month we received a question on one of our past posts, The Ghost Sharks of the Jurassic, asking: “Do we know when these chimaeras shifted to deep-water habitats? If predation and, in...
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