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Darwin Day

Commemorating the birthday of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809.

 

Paleontology has been very significant for consolidating the revolutionary darwinist approach to the study of nature.

 

This amazing natural accumulation of fossils, mainly ammonites, represents a small patch of sea floor “frozen in time”. These extinct cephalopods have drifted up against pieces of waterlogged driftwood. The aggregate contains four distinct genera of ammonites 200 million years old (Lower Jurassic) [Information from Ulster Museum].

 

Fossils coming from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, UK.

 

Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

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