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Friday, 12 September 2025

HUMPBACK WHALES: GWA'YAM

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Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for whom...
Tuesday, 2 September 2025

HIGHLANDS OF ICELAND

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The Northern Lights over a sea of wildflowers in the marsh near Landmannalaugar, part of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of ...
Thursday, 28 August 2025

FOSSILS WHALES FROM SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Modern Whale Vertebrae The air is heavy with salt spray at Muir Creek, just west of Sooke on southern Vancouver Island. Waves tumble over ba...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

OUR GREAT BEARS: URSAVUS TO NAN

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GREAT BEAR NA̱N Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly ...
Monday, 25 August 2025

CANADA'S WESTERN SHORES: HORNBY ISLAND FOSSILS

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Diplomoceras sp . This gorgeous cream and brown big beast of a heteromorph, Diplomoceras (Diplomoceras) sp. , (Hyatt, 1900) was found within...
Saturday, 23 August 2025

DR. KIRK JOHNSON, PALEONTOLOGIST EXTRADORDINAIRE

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Dr. Kirk Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is a paleontologist, science communicator, and fo...
Friday, 22 August 2025

LOVE LANGUAGE OF THE FAR NORTH

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Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...
Monday, 18 August 2025

FOSSIL RHINOS AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil.  What looks to be...
Sunday, 17 August 2025

AVES: LIVING DINOSAURS

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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...
Friday, 15 August 2025

WARRIOR CRABS: KU'MIS

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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 strictly...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

INDEX FOSSILS: AMMONITES

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

AINOCERAS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...
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