Death: A graveside companion ammonite and bone photography is presented

and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy images and X-ray studies

and even threaded

Chalcopyrite is much softer than pyrite and can be scratched with a knife

The Devonian is known as "The Age of Fishes" but crinoids actually became more widespread during the Mississippian Age around 347-325 million years ago

More than good-looking props

Death: A graveside companion ammonite and bone photography is presentedThe ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves,"