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Fossil Huntress — Palaeo Sommelier

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Fossil Huntress — Palaeo Sommelier

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Celebrating Our Great Bears

LIKE-MINDED PALAEO FOLK

Join a local palaeontological or geological society. Some groups offer field trips with folk who've been to the fossil sites before and can offer great advice. I've put a link to some groups below. Do a Google search & contact your local museum or university to find a group near you.

SOOKE'S FOSSIL BIRDS

PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETIES

Alabama Paleo Society
Birmingham Paleontological Society
Miami Fossil Club
Mid-America Paleo Society
New York Paleo Society
North Carolina Fossil Club
Palaeontological Society
Paleo Society of Austin, TX
Southern California Paleo Society
Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation
Vancouver Island Palaeo Society
Vancouver Paleontological Society
Victoria Palaeontological Society

THEROPOD TRACK

TEDTalks (video)

FOSSIL FIELD TRIP ESSENTIALS

30X MAGNIFYING LOUPE
ANTI-FOG EYE PROTECTION
BEGINNER'S FOSSIL FIELD KIT
ESTWING GEO/PALEO ROCK PICK
ESTWING ROCK HAMMER
FIRST AID KIT
FORESTRY TAPE (FOR PACK & HAMMER)
GLOVES / HAND PROTECTION
HAMMER & CHISELS (8, 10 & 12 INCH)
HAT, TOQUE OR HEAD COVERING
LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACK
WATER BOTTLE

BRING EXTRA SNACKS AND WATER FOR FRIENDS

FOSSIL FIELD KIT EXAMPLES

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM UTAH

MUSINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY / RESOURCES

AGU Blogosphere
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SERC's K-12 Science Resources
Teachers & Parents Science Resources
ThoughtCo
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UNAVCO Earth Science Resources

FOSSIL FIELD TRIPS

If you're heading out on a fossil field trip, keep yourself safe —stay warm, dry, fed and hydrated. Let someone know where you are going and when you plan to return. I've added some links with paleo field trip essentials & some nice to have items for different types of fossil trips or to prep and to ID specimens once you are back

SLEEPING MATS / KNEE PROTECTION ON ROUGH GROUND

PALEO NICE TO HAVE'S

5-GALLON BUCKET ORGANIZER
CHISEL WITH HAND GUARD
CLOTH STORAGE BAGS FOR SPECIMENS
COLEMAN TENT SLEEPS EIGHT
DENTAL PICKS FOR PREP
DIAMOND BLADE ROCK SAW
DIGITAL MICROSCOPE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
DREMEL TOOL FOR FOSSIL PREP
ESTWING 3-POUND SLEDGE
ESTWING PRY BAR
EXTRA COLD CHISELS
LOCAL MAPS + GARMIN HIKING GPS
PALEO TOOLS & AIR SCRIBES
WATERPROOF DRY BAGS FOR BEACH SITES

FOSSIL HUNTERS ::

BRING A FRIEND / TELL A FRIEND

AWESOME SOCIAL PEEPS #FF

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GEORGE E. MUSTOE
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PALAEOCAST
PALEO HUNTRESS
PAST TIME
SVEN SACHS
TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY

FUTURE PALAEONTOLOGISTS ~

Check out Dino Girl & the World's Smallest Rock Museum. These two future palaeontologists have loads to share about their favourite fossils, what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur, cool museums, fossil field trips and more!

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GINKO: LIVING FOSSIL

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APODEROCERAS MACROCONCH

DR. BETSY NICHOLLS

Dr. Betsy Nicholls, Rolex Laureate Vertebrate Palaeontologist from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, excavated the type specimen of Shonisaurus sikanniensis over three field sessions in one of the most ambitious fossil excavations ever ventured

SHONISAURUS SIKANNIENSIS

More than 200 million years ago, the Shonisaurus sikanniensis swan in our ancient seas. A 70-foot long specimen encased in limestone was unearthed on the banks of the Sikanni Chief River. Many beautiful souls contributed to our knowledge and excavation of Shoni, particularly from Dean Lomax, Sven Sachs and our own Betsy Nicholls.

PALAEONTOLOGICAL GEMS

DINOSAUR NEWS
EVERYTHING DINOSAUR
FossilEDU Florida Fossil Outreach
JOHN HUTCHINSON
KAFH KETTERING FOSSIL HUNTERS
MARK WITTON
PALEOBIOLOGY DATABASE
PALEOBOTANY LINKS
SIMON BIGGS UBER LINK LIST

TYAUGHTON FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

FOUR RAINDROPS...

Four individual raindrops falling on the high peaks of the Rockies could easily end up thousands of miles apart -- one flowing north to the Beaufort Sea, another reaching the the Gulf of Mexico, a third would be absorbed into Hudson Bay to the east and the last into the vast Pacific.

TYAUGHTON FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

ANCIENT DNA

GIANT GROUND SLOTH

ANCIENT GENOMES

Palaeontology In the Field

ISOGRAPTUS MAXIMUS

COAHULACERATOPS

Palaeontology News

SOUTH AMERICAN TAPIR

PaleoWire

CEPHALOPODA / MOLLUSCA

GODS OF THE SEA

Ammonites were a group of hugely successful aquatic molluscs that looked like the still extant Nautilus, a coiled shellfish that lives off the southern coast of Asia. While the Nautilus lived on, ammonites graced our waters from around 400 million years ago until the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years.

WEST COAST

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EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS

EARLY MAMMALS

ALIS PROPRIIS VOLAT

Building British Columbia

Some 270 million plus years ago, had one wanted to buy waterfront property in what is now British Columbia, you’d be looking somewhere between Prince George and the Alberta border.

HEIDI, DANIEL AND CHARLES HELM

ANCIENT EARTH

NEWSVINE

Seed Newsvine

AMMONITES FROM ANCIENT SEAS

OCEANOGRAPHY

EXPLORE YOUR WORLD

GEOLOGY

CAPILANO FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

ANCIENT BIRDS

DIATRYMA TRACKWAY

Rare bird, reptile and mammal tracks have been immortalized in the outcrops of the Chuckanut Formation

GREEN RIVER STONE COMPANY

ON THE GLOVE

GEOSCIENCE

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PRAEGRESSUS

JEG ELSKER DEG

OUR ANCESTORS

SISTERS | NIGHT AND DAY

ALPINE ADVENTURE

EXEMPLI GRATIA

BESTEVENNER

ORIGIN OF LIFE

GODS AND CEPHALOPODS

TROPICAL CHUCKANUT

The siltstones, sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates of the Chuckanut Formation were laid down about 40-54 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, a time of luxuriant plant growth in the subtropical flood plain that covered much of the Pacific Northwest.

BOBBING IN THE BRINE

PALEONTOLOGICAL EXPLORER

Dinosaur Home

SO BEAUTIFUL / SÅ VAKKER

EARTHLINGS, MEET YOUR MOTHER

BOWRON PORTAGE

MAMMA MOOSE, CALF... GRIZZLY!

We freeze cameras in hand. In seconds the three are upon us. Mamma moose runs straight for us and reaching our boats turns 90 degrees and bolts for the woods -- her calf fast on her heels. The Grizzly, running and caught up in the thrill of the kill, doesn’t notice the deke, hits the brakes and stands up on her hind legs in front of us, ready for some lunch.

BOWRON GRIZZLY

URSAVUS

The Bowron Lakes are at an elevation of 3000 ft. making both Grizzly and Black Bear sightings are common. Both bear families descend from a common ancestor, Ursavus, a bear-dog the size of a raccoon who lived more than 20 million years ago. Seems an implausible lineage having just met of the their larger descendents.

TUMBLER RIDGE TRACKWAY

THEROPOD TRACK

FOSSILS IN THE NEWS

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT BC

RUCKUS ON THE ROCKS

OLYMPIC PENINSULA

One of the most beautiful drives in the Pacific Northwest is the coastline along the Olympic Peninsula from Port Angeles to Neah Bay. This stretch of road meanders alongside the Clallam Formation, a thick, mainly marine sequence of sandstones and siltstones that line the northwestern margin of the Olympic Peninsula, western Washington.

CALYCOCERAS

oregon paleontology

The Farallon Plate took a turn north some 57 million years ago, sweeping much of western coastal Oregon along with it. By the middle Oligocene, the Cascadia Subduction Zone was in full force with growing pressure erupting volcanoes along the Western Cascades, a pattern that was to continue well into the Miocene. The soft ocean sediments of Oregon contain beautifully preserved gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods.

TOPSY TURVY

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

BEST FRIENDS

CANUS LUPUS ET AL

ARTWORK BY TINA BEARD

Tina Beard is an artist and paleo enthusiast on Vancouver Island. She does some of the most exquisite artwork I've had the pleasure to behold.

CARNOTAURUS

DINOSAUR NEWS

HUMPBACK

CETACEAN

EXPLORE YOUR WORLD

Grizzly bear viewing tours with Great Bear Nature Tours

ICHTHYOSAUR

CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN

In the Late Cretaceous, ichthyosaurs were hard hit by the Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event. As the deepest (benthos) layers of the seas became anoxic, poisoned by hydrogen sulphide, deep water marine life died off. This caused a cascade that wreaked havoc all the way up the food chain. At the end of that chain were our mighty predaceous marine reptiles.

Fossil Huntress Link List

American Museum of Natural History
Madrid Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Lisbon Museum of Natural History
Oxford Museum of Natural History
Natural History Museum London

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM LONDON

ARCHAEOLOGY

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

ANTHROPOLOGY

ANCIENT DNA

MYOMANCY | ROLL THE MICE

Myomancy was a method of divination by mice. Their behaviour was observed and taken as a omen of what was to come. Modern scientists study the movements of mice more than the ancient myomancers did and for ends that are not dissimilar.

All Things Paleo

Dinosaur News
Oodles of Awesome Paleo Links
Paleontological Society
Sven Sachs
UK Fossil Localities
USGS Geologic Maps
Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation

FROM THE SEAS

COHO FISHING | SEYMOUR INLET

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SCIENCE 2.O

TABULA RASA

CRINOIDS

CRINOIDS: ECHINODERMATA

Crinoids are unusually beautiful and graceful members of the phylum Echinodermata. They resemble an underwater flower swaying in an ocean current breeze

HORSESHOE CRABS

OH PFEILSCHWANZKREBS

Horseshoe crabs are classic living fossils. These marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura are slowly evolving, conservative taxa

MARCO GAIOTTI PHOTOGRAPHY

ECOLOGY RESEARCH

Hunt Family Potlatch

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

ARMAGH ADAPTATIONS

EPIGENETICS

TYAUGHTON AMMONITES

MARINE BIOLOGY

TIDEPOOL ANEMONES

OCEANOGRAPHY

TIDE TABLES & MARINE WEATHER

OUR OCEANS

CHONDRICHTHYES BATOIDEA

CORAL REEFS

SPOTTED CLEANER SHRIMP

NATURE NATURUM

MAMMALIA PINNIPEDIA

INTO THE WILD

FALCO PEREGRINUS

GODS OF THE AIR

Reaching speeds of over 320 km/h (200 mph) Peregrine falcons are truly one of the Gods of the Air. Highly adaptable to hot and cold temperatures, Peregrines boast a breeding range that stretches from the icy cold Arctic tundra to the searing Tropics.

URSUS ARCTOS

MAMMAL DIVERSITY

WILDLIFE

FRAGILE PLANET

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

FOSSILS ON THE FORESHORE

EARTH SCIENCE NEWS

CRETACEOUS PLANT FOSSILS

WISDOM OF TREES

rain or shine

Rain long foretold takes a long time to pass; if it arrives on short notice, it soon will pass. For the folks I go out collecting with all hikes, digs and kayak trips are rain or shine. Safety is always top of mind and prepping for the weather is paramount. Keep yourself safe whatever part of the world you choose to explore. For forecasts of marine weather in Vancouver call 604.666.3655 or visit http://www.weatheroffice.com/