This Has Got To Appeal,

to just about everybody,

who has any interest at all in the natural world, the American Museum of Natural History invites you to join them on a mammoth visit through 33 million artifacts in a new series, Shelf Life – 33 Million Things, just imagine if you could open up a drawer full of hundreds of pinned insect specimens to study them under a microscope, or unscrew the jar cap to scan a curious creature that swam in the deep sea decades ago? that is what is on offer with this ground breaking new series, you can subscribe on YouTube or sign up for email updates, I am already looking forward to episode three, it features the fossil fish collection and how they are prepared, as I type this I have three cases of prehistoric fossil fish staring down at me,

 like this one,

 it is just a youngster really,

as this Diplomystus dentatus is just 50 million or so years old, unlike some of the others I have that are 120+ million years old, the fish above comes from the Green River formations of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah and if you are interested in your own fossil dig have a look here, but back to Shelf Life, have I subscribed? you bet!