The Blevins Collection

Ancient microbial reef built by billions of bacteria over millions of years in Cretaceous seas.

Thirty-inch jaw from a whale caught between two worlds, still learning to hunt in ancient seas 40 million years ago.

Two trilobites frozen mid-crawl, their delicate spines preserved in 400-million-year-old limestone.

Ten-inch jaw lined with dagger teeth from a twenty-foot predator that terrorized Cretaceous seas.

Massive Ice Age omnivore skull from Romanian cave deposits, where early humans left paintings of these giants.

Twenty-inch jaw from a rhino-sized giant that vanished at the end of the Eocene, 34 million years ago.

Partial mosasaur jaw with five gripping teeth reveals how Prognathodon seized prey whole in Late Cretaceous seas.