FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...

Imagine standing on the edge of a warm, subtropical floodplain 66 million years ago.  The air hums with insects, dragonflies dart over shall...

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica  (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (or Victo...

This lovely oil in water coloured ammonite is the beauty Beudanticeras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian), Krasnodar region, Nor...

Glorious Parasaurolophus art work by Daniel Eskridge Morning mist curls along the banks of a wide, slow river. The air is heavy with the ear...

Look how epic this little guy is!  He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived.  While that may not be strictl...

Dinosaur Track, Tumbler Ridge Imagine kneeling beside a three-toed depression in a slab of sandstone, your fingers tracing the edges of a pr...

Cassowary, Casuariiformes Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you know your local birds. True, you may call them des Oiseaux, p...

Mist clings to the moss-draped cedars, and the river below churns with the silver flash of salmon fighting upstream.  Then, out of the shado...

Step back into the deep Paleozoic—an era that began some 540 million years ago with oceans bustling with trilobites, early fish, and soft-bo...

Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae.  We know h...

Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900) Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus , Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington St...

The Bearded Seal Bartrobbe — the bearded seal ( Erignathus barbatus ) — is a familiar and charismatic presence in the high Arctic waters sur...