Geopetal | Paleontology and Geology Patterns

  • New Product: Shoes!

    by Meaghan Wetherell

    These high top shoes are the perfect meeting point of science and sturdy - and 90% of the profits go to Sternberg Science Camps!

  • Fundraiser for Sternberg Science Camps!

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    The only thing better than cool paleontology gear is knowing that by buying it, you're helping to fund the next generation of paleontologists! That's why starting Friday all items marked with the Kansas Cretaceous Paisley pattern will have 90% of the profits donated directly to the Kansas Cretaceous based Sternberg Science Camps. Read on to learn more!

  • John Day Stripetigraphy

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    The John Day Fossil Beds in Eastern Oregon are an amazing fossil locality spanning from the Cretaceous up into the Pliocene - that's 50 million years of nearly continuous fossil history!

  • That's not what Dromomeryx said last night

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Dromomeryx is a fossil giraffe relative whose horns (technically, ossicones) look extremely phallic and whose name rhymes poorly with Your Mom. Ergo this most excellent paleontology joke...

  • 2021 Pattern Recap

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Trace fossils, trilobites, things that aren't dinosaurs, and some extremely specific inside jokes - this year saw a lot of paleontology art both serious and ridiculous. Thanks for making my first year so fantastic, and I can't wait to show you what 2022 has in store (for the store)!

  • Metasequoia Pattern

    by Meaghan Wetherell

    One of my newest patterns features an incredible plant found in fossil localities across the world from the Cretaceous through 15 million years ago - and then it disappeared so completely that it was described first as a FOSSIL before it was described as a living plant.

  • New product - Scrunchies!

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    That's right, the cutest fashion item from the 90's now is available with the cutest fashion elements from all of prehistory!

  • New product - kid's clothing!

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    You've been asking and it has finally arrived - two of my most popular designs are now available in kids sizing!

  • Sneak Attack SciComm

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Part of the goal of this brand is to get amazing paleontology designs out there for the general public to see. But a lot of the designs I make are ...
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  • Trilobite Paintings

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    I don't know what your thing was during quarantine, but for me... I tried (and failed) to make my own cheese, and I also painted a lot of trilobite...
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  • Spiral Trilobite Design

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    Ampyx priscus is a strange little Ordovician trilobite. In Morocco, you find them in clusters of dozens of individuals - but often, these are less ...
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  • Details of the Priapulid Paisley

    by Meaghan Wetherell
    For a paisley print to look really nice, it is helpful to have smaller elements to intersperse between the bigger pieces. For my Priapulid Paisley ...
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