FOSSIL MUSEUM

I am Roger Perkins, the Virtual Fossil Museum's primary webmaster. Vocationally, I am currently a bioinformaticist (computational biologist). My publications can be seen at Google Scholar. Evolutionary biology (especially Precambrian and Cambrian), paleontology, and science education advocacy are avocational interests. I also contribute to the Palaeos and Western Trilobite Association websites... I first placed the Virtual Fossil Museum (VFM) online sometime in 1999 (no longer sure of date), a time when not information was available on fossils and evolution across geologic time. Even the mighty Wikipedia was years away. Back then there was a nice site maintained by UC Berkeley, and a number of other sites that, like VFM, were built and maintained by passionate amateurs. Most of these amateur sites are long gone, and some can't even be found in Internet archives.Among contributors listed in the table below, I would be remiss if I did not single out John Adamek and his colleagues at the..