UK Fossils was founded in 1998 under a personal Freeserve website out of a sheer passion held since early childhood by Alister Cruickshanks together with his father, Ian Cruickshanks. It quickly grew, and later was moved under its own domain name and server including a large number of network linked websites such as our Discussion Board, Search Geo and ES News sites. Although UK Fossils is a non-profit organisation, UKGE the retail and commercial arm was formed in the year 2000 to cover the huge and growing costs involved in running UK Fossils and it's associated networks. Our Deposits Magazine was launched a few years later.