Guest Author: James Ormiston Palaeontology MSci Graduate / Palaeoartist Ammonites are wonderful things. Staring into their ribbed spirals can be a hypnotic experience. A shape that is vaguely familiar…yet also alien and ancient. Geometrically satisfying, chronologically dizzying. Although being very common, it’s this slight “otherness” which all but guarantees that if you collect fossils, even … Continue reading Sacred Ammonites – The Shaligram Stones of Nepal