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Close-up of a cut brachiopod shell in rock: wavy dark grey and silvery layers rimmed with rusty orange, above a band of glassy brown grains and a striped shell fragment. — Altered Tremadocian brachiopod, Ülgase, Estonia Sophie Graul

Close-up of a white limestone block scattered with small rounded tan and orange fossil grains, with a laptop screen blurred in the background. — Microscopic Fossils Preserved within Limestone from El-Ghanayem, Assiut, Egypt Ahmed-M- Mohy

White limestone sample on a blue background with two red boxes linked to enlarged insets showing tiny fossil shells, one rounded with radiating ribs. — Foraminifera Fossils in Limestone from El Kharga Oasis, Egypt Ahmed-M- Mohy

Polished pale limestone wall slabs with a round ammonite fossil showing a spiral outline, next to black painted graffiti strokes in the upper right corner. — Signs of life - an ammonite fossil next to a tag in a metro station Goulven Laruelle

Close-up of a large ammonite fossil in polished cream limestone, its coiled shell showing wavy, branching suture lines and patches of brown and grey staining. — Ammonite fossil in a metro station in Brussels Goulven Laruelle

Close-up of dark grey limestone packed with fan-shaped fossil shells, their fine radiating ribs catching the light as they emerge at different angles from the rock surface. — Coming to light, from the darkness of the past Giuliana Rossi

Close-up of a rock surface packed with flat, coin-like nummulite fossils seen in cross-section, with a small striped snail crawling across the top. — The Nummulite-Whisperer Snail Manuel de Paz Álvarez

Close-up of a dark grey rock surface with the ribbed, fan-shaped imprint of a fossil bivalve shell, a black lens cap reading Canon placed below for scale. — I bet you didn't know what hit you David Tanner

Polished cross-section of fossil wood on a black background: an oval slice with orange-brown rings and pale spokes radiating like a star from a centre of grey and red banded agate. — Star Dadoxylon, Triassic, Mahajunga, Madagascar Peter Huber

Skull of a cave bear coated in brown mud, lying in a muddy, lumpy cave floor. — Skull Of A Cave Bear Gunnar Ries

Low view up a beige sandstone cliff with thin layers sloping in different directions and a honeycomb of hollows and ledges, under a blue sky. — Fossil dune Jorge Mataix-Solera

Polished cross-section of fossil wood on black: grey and cream growth rings and radial lines around a small cracked centre, with a rusty orange rim. — Fossil wood Schmidt Carsten

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