• Question: what would you think is the most interesting fossil you have found and where in the world did you find it?

    Asked by part45end to Maria, Armin on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by Jessica109.
    • Photo: Maria McNamara

      Maria McNamara answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      I was involved in the discovery of a new species of feathered dinosaur in Siberia a few years ago. However it’s always interesting to find fossils here in Ireland and I can remember almost all of the Irish fossils that I’ve found. One of my favourite Irish fossils that I’ve found is a huge belemnite on the Dingle peninsula – these are relatives of modern octopus that are now extinct and had a long pointed conical shell. Usually they are pretty small – only a centimetre or so at the widest and maybe 10 cm long. The one I found was broken but the opening of the shell was over 10 centimetres wide, so it must have been at least a metre long – so very exciting.

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