Peter.D.Riley

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Taking science education across the world

Our future depends on exploring all the frontiers of science, on innovative technologies based on these explorations and on the development of scientific literacy in all peoples through science education.

Can you identify this fossil?

The item in last week’s curiosity box was an Old Man Cactus, so named on account of its hair. I have had it growing in its little pot for years and its hair has become quite thick. It lives on the windowsill of my study.

Cactus

Cactus

This week, can you identify the mystery fossil?

What is this fossil?

What is this fossil?

Did you get it? It’s an Ammonite fossil!



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