Welcome to Notkin Rock & Fossil
Founded by Geoff Notkin, President of the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, meteorite specialist, author, adventurer, TEDx speaker, and host of the hit television series Meteorite Men and the Emmy Award-winning STEM Journals, Notkin Rock & Fossil is the “museum you can buy from.” This is your destination for in-depth educational material, and exceptional fossils and minerals from around the world.
We are seasoned field professionals who specialize in historic, rare, hard-to-find material of exceptional beauty or scientific significance — always fully guaranteed with a rock solid provenance. And, as longtime members of the world famous Explorers Club, a lifelong passion for paleontology and geology, and decades of expertise in exploration on six continents, we pride ourselves on delivering superb specimens with a touch of adventure.
MEET HISTORY’s Foremost PALEONTOLOGISTS
From seashells preserved in stone to the great fossil beds that revealed entire lost worlds, paleontology has been shaped by generations of extraordinary minds. While Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Huxley will be familiar names to many, we also want you to meet the brilliant Dorothea Bate, O.C. Marsh, Charles Knight, Gideon Mantell and their peers.
Visit our Biographical Dictionary of Historic Paleontologists to learn about some of history’s most significant scientists, explorers, artists, and thinkers — they helped unlock the prehistoric past, so we can understand the Earth of today.
The Science of Ammonites
Featured Paleontology Research and Learning Resource
