Uncover the ancient plant and animal fossils hidden beneath your feet.
Fossil Explorer is a field guide to the common fossils of Britain and will help you identify fossils based on where you find them. The app uses a geological map to plot the rocks present at your chosen location and provides a list of fossils known to occur in rocks of the same age.
Whether you want to discover ammonites along Dorset’s Jurassic coast, marine reptiles in Whitby or trilobites in Wales, this app can tell you more about your fossil finds.
Fossil facts and illustrations will help beginner fossil hunters get started, while specimen details will help more experienced fossil collectors delve deeper.
Features:
• interactive map of Britain and geological map overlay
• illustrations and data for more than 1,200 fossil specimens in the Natural History Museum collection
• introductory information about nearly 90 fossil groups and more than 1,150 species
• fossil content researched and checked by Natural History Museum palaeontologists
• additional information about local geology provided by the British Geological Survey
The app currently covers England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland.
This is an early version of the app and we would appreciate your feedback. Please take a minute to complete a short survey, accessible via the app (select More.)
For more information, visit www.nhm.ac.uk/fossilexplorer.
Fossil Explorer is an Android Education app developed by Natural History Museum and published on the Google play store. It has gained around 5000 installs so far, with an average rating of 3.0 out of 5 in the play store.
Fossil Explorer requires Android with an OS version of 4.1 and up. In addition, the app has a content rating of Everyone, from which you can decide if it is suitable to install for family, kids, or adult users. Fossil Explorer is an Android app and cannot be installed on Windows PC or MAC directly.
Android Emulator is a software application that enables you to run Android apps and games on a PC by emulating Android OS. There are many free Android emulators available on the internet. However, emulators consume many system resources to emulate an OS and run apps on it. So it is advised that you check the minimum and required system requirements of an Android emulator before you download and install it on your PC.
Below you will find how to install and run Fossil Explorer on PC:
If you follow the above steps correctly, you should have the Fossil Explorer ready to run on your Windows PC or MAC. In addition, you can check the minimum system requirements of the emulator on the official website before installing it. This way, you can avoid any system-related technical issues.
| Fossil Explorer APK 2.0.1 | 9.04 MB | 2.0.1 |
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