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POND SCUM... AND OTHER HOT SPRING BEAUTIES

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THEROPOD TRACKWAY
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  • ATLAS OF TAPHONOMIC IDENTIFICATION
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PALM FRONDS WITH ESTWING HAMMER

LIKE-MINDED PALEO FOLK

Join a local paleontological 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.

Paleontological Symposia

Paleontological Symposia

PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETIES

  • Alabama Paleo Society
  • Birmingham Paleontological Society
  • Miami Fossil Club
  • Mid-America Paleo Society
  • New York Paleo Society
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  • Paleo Society of Austin, TX
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  • Vancouver Island Palaeo Society
  • Vancouver Paleontological Society
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THEROPOD TRACK

THEROPOD TRACK

TEDTalks (video)

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PALEONTOLOGY ESSENTIALS

  • 30X MAGNIFYING LOUPE
  • ANTI-FOG EYE PROTECTION
  • BEGINNER'S FOSSIL FIELD KIT
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  • ESTWING ROCK HAMMER
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  • 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

BRING EXTRA SNACKS AND WATER FOR FRIENDS

FOSSIL FIELD KIT EXAMPLES

  • AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM UTAH

MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE FOSSIL PICK

MUSINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY / RESOURCES

  • British Columbia Magazine
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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 & to ID specimens once you're back

SLEEPING MATS / KNEE PROTECTION ON ROUGH GROUND

PALEO NICE TO HAVE'S

  • 5-GALLON BUCKET ORGANIZER
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  • COLEMAN TENT SLEEPS EIGHT
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  • DIAMOND BLADE ROCK SAW
  • DIGITAL MICROSCOPE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
  • DREMEL TOOL FOR FOSSIL PREP
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  • 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

BRING A FRIEND / TELL A FRIEND

AWESOME SOCIAL PEEPS #FF

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  • JULIUS CSOTONYI
  • KIRK JOHNSON
  • NICK PYENSON
  • NICK ZENTNER
  • PALEO HUNTRESS
  • SVEN SACHS

FUTURE PALEONTOLOGISTS ~

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

WORLD'S SMALLEST ROCK MUSEUM

WORLD'S SMALLEST ROCK MUSEUM

DINO GIRL YOUTUBE

DINO GIRL YOUTUBE

MARINE WEATHER / TIDE TABLES

MARINE WEATHER / TIDE TABLES

SEA LIFE

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HEXACORALLIA

HEXACORALLIA

EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS

  • Earth Day Footprint Calculator
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MISTER KANE PALEO PUPPERS

MISTER KANE PALEO PUPPERS

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EARTH DAY | ONE WORLD

EARTH DAY | ONE WORLD
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TRANSLATE / TRADUIRE / TRADUCIR

GINKO: LIVING FOSSIL

GINKO: LIVING FOSSIL
Each year, I grow Ginko and Metasequoia "Living Fossils" to plant on Earth Day as an homage to our environment and a cleaner, kinder world

HELPING CREATE A BETTER WORLD

APODEROCERAS MACROCONCH

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.

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TYAUGHTON FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

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

TYAUGHTON FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

ANCIENT DNA

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GIANT GROUND SLOTH

GIANT GROUND SLOTH

ANCIENT GENOMES

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Paleontology In the Field

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ISOGRAPTUS MAXIMUS

ISOGRAPTUS MAXIMUS

COAHULACERATOPS

COAHULACERATOPS

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DRACOHORS / DINOSAURIA

PaleoWire

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CEPHALOPODA / MOLLUSCA

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

WEST COAST

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EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS

EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS

EARLY MAMMALS

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ALIS PROPRIIS VOLAT

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

HEIDI, DANIEL AND CHARLES HELM

ANCIENT EARTH

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NEWSVINE

Seed Newsvine

AMMONITES FROM ANCIENT SEAS

AMMONITES FROM ANCIENT SEAS

OCEANOGRAPHY

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EXPLORE YOUR WORLD

EXPLORE YOUR WORLD

GEOLOGY

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CAPILANO FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

CAPILANO FOSSIL FIELD TRIP

ANCIENT BIRDS

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DIATRYMA TRACKWAY

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

GREEN RIVER STONE COMPANY

GREEN RIVER STONE COMPANY

ON THE GLOVE

ON THE GLOVE

GEOSCIENCE

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solnhofen

PRAEGRESSUS

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JEG ELSKER DEG

JEG ELSKER DEG

OUR ANCESTORS

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SISTERS | NIGHT AND DAY

SISTERS | NIGHT AND DAY

ALPINE ADVENTURE

ALPINE ADVENTURE

EXEMPLI GRATIA

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BESTEVENNER

BESTEVENNER

ORIGIN OF LIFE

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GODS AND CEPHALOPODS

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

BOBBING IN THE BRINE

PALEONTOLOGICAL EXPLORER

Dinosaur Home

SO BEAUTIFUL / SÅ VAKKER

SO BEAUTIFUL / SÅ VAKKER

EARTHLINGS, MEET YOUR MOTHER

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BOWRON PORTAGE

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

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

TUMBLER RIDGE TRACKWAY

THEROPOD TRACK

THEROPOD TRACK

FOSSILS IN THE NEWS

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TYRANNOSAURUS REX

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TYRANNOSAURUS REX

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT BC

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT BC

RUCKUS ON THE ROCKS

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

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

TOPSY TURVY

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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BEST FRIENDS

BEST FRIENDS

CANUS LUPUS ET AL

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ARTWORK BY TINA BEARD

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

CARNOTAURUS

DINOSAUR NEWS

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HUMPBACK

HUMPBACK

CETACEAN

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EXPLORE YOUR WORLD

  • Grizzly bear viewing tours with Great Bear Nature Tours

ICHTHYOSAUR

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

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM LONDON

ARCHAEOLOGY

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TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

ANTHROPOLOGY

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ANCIENT DNA

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

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COHO FISHING | SEYMOUR INLET

COHO FISHING | SEYMOUR INLET

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SCIENCE 2.O

SCIENCE 2.O

TABULA RASA

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CRINOIDS

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

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

MARCO GAIOTTI PHOTOGRAPHY

ECOLOGY RESEARCH

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Hunt Family Potlatch

Hunt Family Potlatch

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

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ARMAGH ADAPTATIONS

ARMAGH ADAPTATIONS

EPIGENETICS

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TYAUGHTON AMMONITES

TYAUGHTON AMMONITES

MARINE BIOLOGY

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TIDEPOOL ANEMONES

TIDEPOOL ANEMONES

OCEANOGRAPHY

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TIDE TABLES & MARINE WEATHER

TIDE TABLES & MARINE WEATHER

OUR OCEANS

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CHONDRICHTHYES BATOIDEA

CHONDRICHTHYES BATOIDEA

CORAL REEFS

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SPOTTED CLEANER SHRIMP

SPOTTED CLEANER SHRIMP

NATURE NATURUM

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MAMMALIA PINNIPEDIA

MAMMALIA PINNIPEDIA

INTO THE WILD

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FALCO PEREGRINUS

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

URSUS ARCTOS

MAMMAL DIVERSITY

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WILDLIFE

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FRAGILE PLANET

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SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

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FOSSILS ON THE FORESHORE

FOSSILS ON THE FORESHORE

EARTH SCIENCE NEWS

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CRETACEOUS PLANT FOSSILS

CRETACEOUS PLANT FOSSILS

WISDOM OF TREES

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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/

EARTH CLIMATE

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OPHTHALMOPLAX BRASILIANA

OPHTHALMOPLAX BRASILIANA

PaleoWire

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GIANT'S CAUSEWAY

GIANT'S CAUSEWAY

ANCIENT EARTH

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Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park

OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO

  • Fossil Tours Courtenay Museum
  • Muir Creek Fossils, Sooke
  • Stonerose Interpretive Center
  • Hornby Island - Colliwshaw Point
  • Bowron Lake Provincial Park
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