FOSSIL HUNTRESS

MUSINGS MEANT TO CAPTIVATE, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE

Thursday, 30 October 2025

DRIFTWOOD CANYON FOSSIL BEDS

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Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hec...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

TRACKING THE GIANTS: READING DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS IN STONE

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Dinosaur Track, Tumbler Ridge Imagine kneeling beside a three-toed depression in a slab of sandstone, your fingers tracing the edges of a pr...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

WINGS OVER SOLNHOFEN: GRACEFUL PTERODACTYLUS SPECTABILIS

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Pterodactylus spectabilis  Imagine the warm, shallow lagoons of what is now southern Germany during the Late Jurassic, some 150 million year...
Monday, 27 October 2025

WILD EQUINE BEAUTY: ICELANDIC HORSES

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Icelandic Horses These beauties are Icelandic horses who graced me with their energy and spirit for a series of feel-good photoshoots along ...
Sunday, 26 October 2025

FOSSIL BIRD REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, BC We all love the idea of discovering a new species—especially a fossil species lost to ti...
Saturday, 25 October 2025

ROADSIDE FOSSILS: TRIASSIC PAPER CLAMS FROM PINE PASS

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Triassic Paper clams, Pardonet Formation In the rugged foothills of Pine Pass, near the small northern British Columbia town of Chetwynd, th...
Friday, 24 October 2025

THE FOSSIL CLIFFS OF JOGGINS, EASTERN CANADA

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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Thursday, 23 October 2025

NOOTKA FOSSILS AND FIRST NATIONS

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Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John Fam The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Her...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

VANCOUVER ISLAND'S ELUSIVE COASTAL WOLVES

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Along the storm-lashed shores of Vancouver Island, the west coast wolves move like shadows—silent, salt-streaked, and born of the sea.  Thei...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025

TIKTAALIK, ELPISTOSTEGE AND MIGUASHA

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Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

PHAEOLUS SCHWEINITZII: THE BILLION-YEAR HUE

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Phaeolus schweinitzii A popular and widely used fungus for making natural dyes is the dyer’s polypore, Phaeolus schweinitzii , sometimes cal...
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