Fossils

Valued for their scientific significance and rarity, fossils are highly sought-after by collectors looking for a piece of natural history. Our Science and Natural History auctions feature an extraordinary range of objects and artefacts, including dinosaur fossils, aquatic fossils and plant fossils — in 2025, an oviraptorosaur skeleton was sold by Christie's for £3.5 million. Each fossil records prehistoric animals, plants or environments, offering insight into the history of life on Earth.

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

SOUTH DAKOTA, USA

STEGOSAURUS

WYOMING, USA

An Oviraptorosaur

South Dakota, USA

THE SKULL OF A JUVENILE TRICERATOPS

HELL CREEK FORMATION, MONTANA, USA.

A DODO SKELETON

MAURITIUS, BEFORE 1690

Six Tyrannosaurus rex teeth

South Dakota, USA

THE SKULL OF A TRICERATOPS

HELL CREEK FORMATION, MONTANA

THE SKULL OF A TRICERATOPS

HELL CREEK FORMATION, MONTANA, USA.

AN ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

AN INTACT ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

A LARGE IRIDESCENT AMMONITE

BEARPAW FORMATION, CANADA

A LARGE IRIDESCENT AMMONITE

Alberta, Canada

A PTEROSAUR

SOLNHOFEN, GERMANY

ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

AN ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

AN INTACT ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

A LARGE FOSSIL PALM FLOWER

GREEN RIVER, WYOMING, USA

A LARGE FOSSIL FISH TRIPTYCH

GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WYOMING USA

AN INTACT ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

A SABER-TOOTHED CAT

SOUTH DAKOTA

AN INTACT ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY

A FOSSIL SEA LILY PLAQUE

HOLZMADEN, GERMANY

A FOSSIL ICHTHYOSAUR

POSIDONIENSCHIEFER FORMATION, GERMANY

A FOSSILISED GIANT PALM FROND

Green River Formation, Wyoming

A Pterodactyl

Solnhofen, Germany

AN INTACT ELEPHANT BIRD EGG

MADAGASCAR, PRE-17TH CENTURY