He published his findings with many pictures from his fossil collection, enabling others to investigate their distribution and test his theories.

Cope suffered from debilitating illness in his later years and had to sell part of his fossil collection and rent out one of his homes to make ends meet.

She worked closely with many principal geologists of the time and her fossil collection played a significant part in the development of geology as a field.

His studies were varied ranging from dentistry and medicine to chemistry and mineralogy and even fossil collections.

This museum contains fossil collections of sharks, eels, shrimps, squids, rays, coelacanthes and flying fish.