FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Much of Egypt’s history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as ancient—a land of pharaohs, pyramids, and hieroglyphs etched in stone—bu...

Ordovician Seas Ordovician seas, some 485 to 444 million years ago, were gloriously alive.  If the Cambrian was Earth's exuberant dress ...

The Extinct Quagga, Equus quagga The quagga was one of southern Africa’s most distinctive grazing animals—a zebra at the front, a chestnut-b...

Uintacrinus socialis from Utah, USA Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms. It is magical when all the elements come together to pres...

Dsungaripterus weii Pterosaurs were flying reptiles—not birds, nor dinosaurs—that ruled the skies from the Late Triassic until the end of th...

Fossil Sea Star Starfish—or, more accurately, sea stars—look almost too geometrically tidy to be real.  Their familiar five-pointed form res...

SUE, the T Rex at the Field Museum, Chicago Standing more than 12 metres (40 feet) long and roughly 4 metres (13 feet) tall at the hips, SUE...

Despite occasionally being called the “Indian water dragon,” Physignathus cocincinus is more accurately known as the Indochinese, Chinese, ...

Frogs have been hopping, swimming and making an astonishing amount of noise for their size for a very long time.  Their earliest frog-like r...

Sea Lion Skull Sea lions are sleek, intelligent marine predators capable of diving through cold ocean water with astonishing speed and grace...

Manatees do not live year-round in Texas, but these gentle sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a summer vacation and r...

Libonectes atlasense / Andy Chua Collection A beautifully preserved mandible of  Libonectes atlasense , an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from...

Geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress. If you love paleontology, you will love this stream. Dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites—you'll fi...

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

Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific nam...

Meet Thrissops formosus , a beautifully streamlined ray-finned fish that patrolled the warm tropical waters of Europe during the Late Jurass...