This page is for videos used in lecture and links we may use in class or lab. It will be continually updated, with most posts disappearing after a couple of weeks.
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Here is a page describing our field trip site at Caesar Creek Spillway. You will find the Digital Atlas of Ordovician Life very useful for identifying specimens. Just as good is the University of Georgia Stratigraphy Lab’s guide to Cincinnatian fossils. I also like the Dry Dredgers’ photographic guide to Cincinnatian fossils. You have plenty of online resources like these, along with guides in the lab, to fully identify most of your field specimens.
Cone snail swallowing a large fish alive! Australian cones ambushing fish! Naturally, though, National Geographic does cone snails best.
Moon snail eating a razor clam!
The amazing nudibranch Melibe. Strangest animal ever.
Nice video of Nautilus swimming across a reef. Note the rather beat-up shell, the backwards motion, and the hyponome leading to the mantle cavity. You’ll also see familiar animals in that reef.
National Geographic makes the cuttlefish a lot less cuddly.
The BBC explains “zombie starfish“.
A traditional story at the end of a paleontology class: The Lying Stones of Johann Beringer.