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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Fossils
Grandispora cornuta – a lament
In ‘normal’ conditions, the tiny spore Grandispora cornuta (‘big spore with horns’) has a regular shape and a spiny outer coat. But when its DNA is exposed to UV-B radiation, its coat darkens and its spines become malformed. In such … Continue reading
Lefty
This fossil whelk is proud that it’s not the common sort… Continue reading
Immortality
Advice on the subject for marine invertebrates. Continue reading
Edie Acaran
Your view of things depends on where you’re looking from. Continue reading
In the brickpits of Sussex and Surrey
Saved from the fiery furnace! Continue reading
Horshamosaurus
How would you like it if your name got changed every few years? Continue reading
Misty
How much would you pay for a set of 150-million-year-old bones? Continue reading
Triasacarus fedelei
An amber-preserved oldie Continue reading
Roger de Boxgrove
A Middle Paleolithic view of Sussex life Continue reading
On the naming of dung-stones
The geologist, mineralogist, and determinedly eccentric Reverend Willam Buckland (1784–1856) was the first to give a name to a type of fossil about which his colleague, Dr. William Wollaston, believed Georgian England would probably have preferred not to talk. You’ll … Continue reading
Undescribed
But a vital part of the squid anatomy Continue reading
Bracklesham Bay
Or David Bone’s Bay? Continue reading
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Paludina
Beware of imitations Continue reading
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New Titanomyrmaland
A Queen’s royal progress Continue reading
Dora the borer
Penetrating polydora Continue reading
Oh, I wish I could keep all me teeth
Easy come, easy go Continue reading
Hilton’s highlights
For Gentlemen only Continue reading
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Quinquelocalina
Little things save a lot Continue reading
Forever amber
Petrified sunlight! Continue reading
No sex, please
Ostracods can do it hemaphroditically Continue reading
The Baggeridge way
Congealed in the Weald Continue reading
Small wonders
Little gems Continue reading
Lite bites
A grand day out? Continue reading
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Owain’s bird
A bird in the sand is worth telling your parents about Continue reading
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In Mary Anning’s footsteps
An ichthyosaurial tour Continue reading
Hostile coexistence
A stone-age argument Continue reading
Flight-ready
One small step for. . . Continue reading
Triarthrus
Symbiotic boredom Continue reading
The Neanderthal way
Exposed in Norfolk Continue reading
The fossil digger’s song
A ‘coprolite industry’ anthem Continue reading
Dawn tyrant
Quills and thrills Continue reading
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The sincerest form of flattery
Screwed up Continue reading
Home and colonial
A modular lifestyle Continue reading
Rest in Peacehavem
Ammonitic foresight Continue reading
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Sexual dimorphism
It can be fun! Continue reading
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The hole
Paradise lost Continue reading
Obsession
I can give it up at any time Continue reading
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Shark ark
How to survive Continue reading
Sorry!
I’ve cracked it! Continue reading
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Opabinia
A tribute to an ancient beauty Continue reading
Damsel in distress
The Big Question Continue reading
Pikaia
Greetings to an ancestor Continue reading
The fossil record
Have you heard it? Continue reading
Selsey Bill
The Midas touch Continue reading
Iggy
A dumbed-down Iguanodon Continue reading
The hunter’s cry
Another cautionary tale Continue reading
Why?
A good question Continue reading
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Flossie
An insect in amber Continue reading
Burrows
A trace fossil Continue reading
A grazing trace
Tracks and trails Continue reading
Chalk talk
An alga speaks Continue reading
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Poor Doris
Echinocoris scutata Continue reading
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Memoirs
Dinosaur extinction explained, possibly Continue reading
A touch of class
Ammonites Continue reading
Oyster’s end
Gryphaea dilatata Continue reading
Sue
A reconstructed Tyrannosaurus Rex Continue reading
Anon
A fossil pleads to be found Continue reading
Fame
. . . could be yours Continue reading
The meaning of life
Offaster pilula Continue reading
Gordon’s garden
Evidence for fossil redistribution Continue reading
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Time flies
A problem solved Continue reading