fossilwork + restoration

A life-size reconstruction of a juvenile Dimetrodon for the Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, mounted alongside the prepared slab.

Replicating delicate Triassic skin bones in double silicone shells before thin sections destroy the originals.

A hands-on replica of Europe's best-preserved predatory dinosaur, made for the Altmühltal Nature Park information centre.

Where the bone is gone, the impression remains: ultra-fine silicone moulds reveal vascular openings and palatal denticles of baby pelycosaurs.

Uncovering the largest bone from a sandstone block of over 600 kg – an amphibian some three metres long from the time of the first dinosaurs.

3D scanning and printing turned the table-sized Pantelosaurus saxonicus slab into two nearly identical, much lighter replicas.

A century of pyrite fears, sulphatic efflorescence and 1970s varnish repairs – and what the 2024 restoration actually found.

Red on red, brittle and poorly preserved – no beginner's piece, and what kind of bones these are has to stay secret for a while.

Removing the crust from a series of dinosaur bones – good colour contrast, but a fracture behind every square centimetre.