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culturescience1 year ago

"Renowned Fossil Hunter Fights to Keep Collection in UK"

Fossil hunter Wolfgang Grulke, who has amassed a world-renowned collection spanning 500 million years of evolution, is seeking a new home for his private museum in the UK. The collection, which includes rare heteromorph ammonites and a perfectly preserved 'kamikaze' ichthyosaur, has garnered interest from museums abroad but Grulke hopes it will remain in the UK. His passion for fossils began 50 years ago, and his self-taught expertise has led to a collection considered the largest and best of its kind in the world.

paleontology2 years ago

"Fossil Hunter Honored in Final Spin of 'Ezekiel's Wheel'"

Yale paleontologists have identified the mysterious fossil known as "Ezekiel's Wheel" as a 420-million-year-old hemichordate called Rotaciurca superbus. The fossil, discovered by amateur fossil hunter Samuel J. Ciurca Jr., is a unique cephalodiscid that evolved a conical structure resembling a wheel. The researchers named it Rotaciurca superbus in honor of Ciurca and assigned it to a new family called Ezekielidae. This discovery provides new insights into the evolution and behavior of ancient hemichordates.

archaeologypaleontology2 years ago

"Fossil Hunter Unearths Rare 450,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusk in UK Quarry"

A fossil hunter discovered a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk sticking out of the ground at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, England. The tusk, believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age, measures four feet long. The fossil was taken to a paleontology museum for preservation and examination, where experts will study its habitat, food supply, and signs of predation. The discovery adds to the museum's collection, which includes a plesiosaur skeleton and an iguanodon dinosaur found in previous years.