The natural power of taxidermy
Quite a few museum visitors and nature lovers imagine that finding, collecting, mounting and displaying fossils is an easy and simple task. But this is certainly not true!
Fossil wood – a view through a microscope
Have you ever wondered whether we have preserved fossil wood in Slovenia? The answer is affirmative – yes. Under a microscope, cross-sections of fossil wood allow fairly accurate identification of individual species.
Fossil wood from the collection of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History
Fossil wood designates the remains of plants from older geological periods, which after dying out found themselves quickly enough in a suitable environment, where their decomposition – rotting – was prevented. Such conditions subsisted in the distant past and still subsist today, for example in marshes, mud, silt, sand, volcanic sand and ash, resin, earthwax, tar …
Fossil forest heritage
Fossil wood designates the remains of plants from older geological periods, which after dying out found themselves quickly enough in a suitable environment, where their decomposition – rotting – was prevented.
Jawbone of a cave lion on the stamp
Slovenian General Post Office issued a stamp depicting the cave lion jawbone.