A little while ago, I posted some images of a fossil coral reef, a few miles from my home in Berwickshire, on Scotland’s east coast. Since then I’ve explored a little further, even venturing into England, to find more fossils and ancient sea beds; I was delighted to find an old sea [...]
I think that if I were to see a featherstar, I could be easily coned into believing that they had just been discovered by a NASA space probe in some distant extra-terrestrial ocean on Europa or another far-flung moon. Yet any study of palaeontology will reveal that featherstars have a long, long [...]