Fossil site directory
Every fossil on fossils.im will get its own site. Megalodon and ammonites come first. Here’s the plan for the first ten.
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This hub, fossils.im. The fossil sites below will be listed as open, with a link, on the day each one goes live.
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- MegalodonFirst wave
megalodon.fossils.imPlanned: the giant shark known mostly from its teeth, how big it really was, and what its fossils can and can’t tell us.
Coming soon - AmmonitesFirst wave
ammonites.fossils.imPlanned: the coiled shells of the Jurassic Coast, how ammonites lived, and how to tell one kind from another.
Coming soon - Mammoths
mammoths.fossils.imPlanned: woolly mammoths and their relatives, where their fossils are found, and the last mammoths on Wrangel Island.
Coming soon - Smilodon
smilodon.fossils.imPlanned: the best-known sabre-toothed cat, those long canine teeth, and the Americas it lived in.
Coming soon - Amber
amber.fossils.imPlanned: fossil tree resin, the Baltic amber coast, and the insects and plants caught inside it.
Coming soon - Trilobites
trilobites.fossils.imPlanned: the armoured sea arthropods of the Palaeozoic, how long they lasted, and how they died out.
Coming soon - Ichthyosaurs
ichthyosaurs.fossils.imPlanned: the sea reptiles of the Triassic and Jurassic, and the Lyme Regis finds of Mary Anning and her brother Joseph.
Coming soon - Mosasaurs
mosasaurs.fossils.imPlanned: the sea-going lizards of the Cretaceous, how big they grew, and what they ate.
Coming soon - Crinoids
crinoids.fossils.imPlanned: sea lilies and feather stars, ancient and living, and why fossil crinoids help date rocks.
Coming soon - Coprolites
coprolites.fossils.imPlanned: fossil poo, how William Buckland and Mary Anning worked out what it was, and what it tells us about ancient meals.
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How we chose the ten
We ranked well-known fossils by how many people read about them online over a year, then left out the dinosaurs, which have their own hub. The ten cover sea creatures, Ice Age mammals, fossil resin and fossil poo. Megalodon came out top, so it comes first, with ammonites alongside it.
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How the network works
The list of sites lives in network.json. This page and sitemap-index.xml are built from it, and only open sites go into the sitemap index. Each fossil site will have a link back here at the top of every page.