FOSSIL HUNTRESS

A lazy walrus lounges on an ice floe, its massive, blubbery body shimmering under the low Arctic sun.  With a deep, rumbling sigh, it shifts...

There is a particular kind of quiet magic in the world, the sort that sends a small shiver of awe through you when all the elements of deep ...

On a frosty Washington morning, when mist clings to the Douglas firs and frost paints the ferns silver, a flit of motion catches your eye—a ...

Saber-Toothed Cat,  Machairodus aphanistus The skull before you lies cradled in a glass case at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in ...

Reynisfjara, Iceland's Black Sand Beach Imagine a beach covered with impossibly smooth black stones. In site of the shore, stand tall bl...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , tip-toes toward a frisky (and very startled) Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis — two wonderfully ...

What is most wonderful about natural science is that every fossil—every spiral, ridge, and suture—opens a window onto a vanished world.  Tak...

The massive marine reptile vertebra you see here—broad, five-sided, drum-shaped, and heavy enough to require two hands to lift—once belonged...

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...

This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaraghan — Mangy...

Misty shores, moss-covered forests, dappled light, and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida Gwaii, a land where ancient stor...

A Mosasaur Snatches a Tasty Bite Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean—if you dare—and you enter the domain of one of Earth’s ...

Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic fossil localities on Vancouver Island lies within the Santonian–Maastrichtian (...

Nusfjord, Lofoten, Norway In the soft blue twilight of a Lofoten winter, the village of Nusfjord sits cradled between mountains that rise li...

It began with a bloom, Florissantia quilchenensis , its petals splayed across a creamy, beige-brown matrix like a fossilized whisper from a ...

A Bird's Eye View of BC's Interior Once upon a geologic time—about 52 million years ago—British Columbia wasn’t the mountain-studded...