The northeastern gold rush town of Republic caters to fossil-obsessed road-trippers with the only public dig site in the state.

The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to increase through donations and fieldwork by Museum staff most recently in Morocco and Oxford. In 2007, a large donation by David Kemp ...

These fossils, preserved within limestone layers, date back to the early Eocene period ... Riyadh Among the findings are fossils of bony fish, marking a significant milestone as the first ...

The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older ...

These fossils offer unique insights into the evolution of animals and the Eocene Epoch around 45 million years ago. At that time, the Geiseltal was a warm, tropical swamp. Ancient horses ...

He said: "Whilst fossil fish are known in pavements in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, to my knowledge these fossils seem to have gone amiss." Caithness flagstone quarried in the north ...

At the quarries, on state and private land, fossil-hunters dig up and sell the preserved remains of fish, crocodiles ... to sort through and process the buckets of coprolites from the early Eocene ...