FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Trekking in Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic When the end-Permian extinction struck 252 million years ago, it nearly wiped the slate clean.  More ...

The Trent River near Courtenay, British Columbia is a hotbed of 85-million-year-old fossil fauna immortalized in stone.  The bedrock of the ...

Tallheo Cannery Perched atop weathered, rotting pilings and wrapped in the mist and mood of British Columbia’s wild north coast sits the Tal...

Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean—if you dare—and you enter the domain of one of Earth’s most spectacular marine predators...

At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...

Meet one of the most wonderfully peculiar animals to ever grace our ancient seas.  This five-eyed marvel swam through the Cambrian oceans so...

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

This graceful beauty, with its elegant, sail-like fins and armour of shimmering scales, is Albertonia sp. —an Early Triassic ganoid fish wh...

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...

Dodo Birds by Daniel Eskridge Two dodo birds—one warm brown like sun-baked coconut husk, the other a pale, ghostly white with hints of grey—...

Yorkshire Coast You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , found in an alum quarry in Y...

The Dogfish Kootéeyaa Pole in Saxman Totem Park Rural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has Totem Parks—to help...

Behind the glass of the Natural History Museum in London rests the skull of a lion that once prowled—not across the sun-baked mountains of N...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...