Phone a fossil

The fossils are displayed in the south foyer of level 8 of the School of Earth and Environment.

If you have an NFC enabled phone then touch the sticker on the display by each fossil to hear it speak.

If your phone has a bar code scanner, then scan the QR code on the sticker (note: some bar code scanners do not play sound).

Alternatively use the links below to go directly to the pages:

Whale
Pterosaur
Dinosaur
Hominin
Terror bird

Phone a fossil was developed by

Jacqueline Houghton (contact: j.houghton(at)leeds.ac.uk)
Rebecca Sellars
Clare Gordon

The voices of the fossils are

Cris Little (Whale)
Fiona Gill (Pterosaur)
Alan Haywood (Dinosaur)
James Witts (Hominin)
Tracy Aze (Terror Bird)

This service uses the mobile data networks only and will utilise standard phone data rates. We recommend you have a tariff that includes a data allowance.

Overseas visitors will be subject to roaming data charges and should check the roaming data rates of their tariff.