FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

Temnodontosaurus crassimanus Meet Temnodontosaurus crassimanus — the sea monster that looked like someone asked nature to weld a dolphin...

Dinosaur Provincial Park Fossil Dig Ohh yes — Dinosaur Provincial Park is one of those places where time just… refuses to mind its manners. ...

Proceratopyge rectispinata A lovely creamy brown Proceratopyge rectispinata trilobite from Upper Cambrian deposits in the McKay Group near ...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...

Dolphin Fossil Vertebrae Pulled from the cold, turbid bottom of the North Sea, a fossil dolphin vertebra is a small but eloquent survivor of...

Mixosaurus sp . from Middle Triassic Seas If you ever wanted to meet an ichthyosaur halfway between “sleek dolphin missile” and “awkward cro...

Nessie the Opalized Marine Reptile At the Opal Museum in Queensland glitters one of the more improbable fossils ever pulled from the ancient...

Flying squirrels are the quiet daredevils of the northern forests, tiny nocturnal acrobats that turn the darkened canopy into an aerial high...

  Ancient Starlight Warming the Hills After a long day on the trail—dust on your boots, muscles humming with that pleasant kind of fatigue—t...

Toxodon  was a hulking, hippo-sized grazing mammal that once roamed the ancient grasslands, wetlands, and scrub of South America.  The creat...

Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene whe...

Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus Imagine cresting a windswept hillside in the fading amber of a Pleistocene sunset.  The tall grass parts in...

Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) contracta with gut structure This specimen lovely chocolate brown trilobite specimen is  Orygmaspis  (Paraboli...

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

Bryce Canyon National Park  From above, Bryce Canyon National Park looks less like a place on Earth and more like a revealed secret—an ancie...

Johann Hermann's Pterodactylus , 1800 In the grand annals of science, few discoveries have flapped into history with quite as much confu...

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