Category Archives: palaeontology

Misterious

Posted on 10 December 2020 by Henry Gee

Yesterday I drove Mrs Gee, a student nurse at the University of East Anglia, to UEA where she had to do some necessary admin that couldn’t be done remotely. While she was doing that, Posy the Golden Retriever took me … Continue reading →

Posted in Apparitions, desert, dog, Earlham Park, fist, fog, fossils, landscape, Leakey, Lomekwi, mist, mog, navigation, norwich, palaeontology, Science Is Vital, self-similarity, Turkana, UEA | Comments Off on Misterious

Echinoids

Posted on 9 February 2014 by Henry Gee

Here is a small collection of fossils. I’m posting this to celebrate the recovery of the second one along on the bottom row, found by me earlier today on Cromer East Beach while Crox Minor and I were walking the … Continue reading →

Posted in Apparitions, belemnites, Blog Norfolk!, Cromer, Cromer East Beach, echinoids, evolution, fossils, palaeontology, probability of fossilization, The Accidental Species | Comments Off on Echinoids

Teeth

Posted on 17 October 2013 by Henry Gee

When I was a child one of my favourite books was Busy, Busy World by the late Richard Scarry. Each double-page spread was a story set in a particular country, and the characters were all animals. The story I remember … Continue reading →

Posted in conodonts, convergence, evolution, hard tissues, palaeontology, Research, vertebrates | Comments Off on Teeth