FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognizable as Stegosaurus , with its double row of towering bony plates and spiked tail.  This herbivore, w...

Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world ...

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart.  Meet Suchomimus tenerensis , a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what...

This Early Cretaceous herbivore—living about 113 to 100 million years ago during the Albian—roamed what is now Mongolia.  Its name means “hi...

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

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

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

Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod Comparison The wind always arrives first. It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing y...

Gastrolith from Traskasaura sandrae There’s a fine line between “swallowed by accident” and “intentional meal plan,” and few fossils illustr...

Gargoyleosaurus by Daniel Eskridge Step back into the lush forests of the Late Jurassic, about 155 million years ago, where ferns brushed t...

José Fernando Bonaparte One of the most delightful palaeontologists to grace our Earth was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 Februa...

Dimetrodon by Daniel Eskridge In the steamy forests of the early Permian, some 295 million years ago, a Dimetrodon prowls through a world t...

When you ask most folk to think of a dinosaur and share the first mighty brute that comes to mind, it is almost always  Tyrannosaurus rex —t...

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

Tucked along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, just outside Denver, Colorado, lies one of the world’s most famous fossil localities: D...

Hadrosaur Eggs Standing before a clutch of fossilized dinosaur eggs for the first time is a deeply moving experience. Unlike towering skelet...

Spinosaurus the Spine Lizard of the Cretaceous This beautiful big boy painted in yellow, green and blue is Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.  Bigger...

Imagine standing on the edge of a warm, subtropical floodplain 66 million years ago.  The air hums with insects, dragonflies dart over shall...