Fossil Devonian Coral Head Size:3-4" Mix up a concoction

Mix up a concoction

They prevent the specimen from decaying

the book is at once a visual masterwork

with elegant natural history drawings from the British Royal Collection married to beautiful prose

Fossil Devonian Coral Head Size:3-4" Mix up a concoctionDevonian Age 419359 million years ago. Coral is neat stuff. For the uninitiated, it just looks like a cool rock living on the ocean floor, but in reality its actually a living animal. While that might be news to some of you, its still really cool to think about. Whats even cooler is the fact that coral has been around for a very long time. About 500 million years, to be exact. These particular specimens are approximately 419359 million years old, and