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#RealFossilHunter Tour – Part 4: Fossil Hunter Lottie meets Cambrian critter expert Dr Allison Daley

The incredible evolutionary explosion of weird and wonderful animals 500 million years ago has a special, trowelblazer-tastic history — have you heard of Helen, Helena and Mary Vaux Walcott, the Burgess Shale trowelblazers? If not, read this post! And that trowelblazing tradition continues to this day — which is why Fossil Hunter Lottie was just a tad excited to make her way to the University of Oxford and sound the day with Dr Allison Daley and learn all about her Cambrian Critters…

Read all about their day on TrowelBlazers: http://trowelblazers.com/realfossilhunter-tour-part-4-lottie-in-oxford/

It was almost a disaster. For 5 whole days Fossil Hunter Lottie appeared to be lost in the post. But a spot of sleuthing and a few phone calls later, and PHEW! She turned up safe and sound in the University of Leeds post room, ready for her next adventure on the Real Fossil Hunter UK tour… spending the day at work with micropalaeontologist Dr Tracy Aze!

Read about Tracy’s (& Fossil Hunter Lottie’s) day in our latest ‪#‎realfossilhunter‬ post here – it also has the ‪#‎girlswithtoys‬ hashtag totally covered…

And don’t forget, if you want to win your own Fossil Hunter Lottie Doll, sharing and liking this post will enter you in our prize draw!

http://trowelblazers.com/the-realfossilhunter-uk-tour-lottie-in-leeds/

The countdown has begun! On May 21st we’ll be celebrating Mary Anning’s birthday with the official launch of a doll inspired by her: Fossil Hunter Lottie.

TrowelBlazers has worked closely with Lottie Dolls to make a doll that we hope will encourage little girls and boys to go out and hunt for their own fossils (safely and responsibly, of course!). And now we’re sending Fossil Hunter Lottie on a tour of the UK to meet #trowelblazing palaeontologists across the country, and find out what a day-in-the-life of a #realfossilhunter is actually like.

We’ll be photoblogging and tweeting pictures along the way, so stay-tuned. We really hope these pictures will help to show kids what real scientists look like, and that they too can grow up to be a palaeontologist.

You can join in too — share your photos of real-life fossilising, whether it’s your hobby or your job, on Twitter and Facebook, using the hashtag #RealFossilHunter. Every tweet/FaceBook post using #realfossilhunter will also be entered into a draw to win a Fossil Hunter Lottie doll (winner announced May 21st).

LET THE FOSSIL HUNTER LOTTIE #REALFOSSILHUNTER TOUR BEGIN…

Fossil Hunter Lottie’s UK tour begins, quite naturally at the Natural History Museum in London (where TeamTB’s Brenna and Tori work).

Everyone knows that there are incredible fossils on display, but stored away in the collections there are over 7 MILLION more specimens being worked on by scientists. We took Lottie behind the scenes to meet #trowelblazing NHM scientists Emma Bernard, Lorna Steel and Ria Mitchell

READ MORE at trowelblazers.com: http://trowelblazers.com/fossil-hunter-lottie-and-the-realfossilhunter-tour/