From Our Collection
Highlights and writeups about items from the KGS collection. Including fossils, minerals, core, meteorites and other specimens.
Kentucky Shark Week 2026 - Before the Bluegrass, There Were Sharks
Shark Week 2026: Though not common, many kinds of ancient shark and shark-relative teeth can be found in Kentucky in Mississippian and Pennsylvanian strata. More than just having a tooth-like shape, fossil teeth have textural details which allow them to be identified as teeth.