FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

European Flamingo At dawn along the salt lagoons of the Mediterranean, the European flamingo rises like a soft-feathered sunrise, a sweep of...

In the hard-edged years of the Great Depression, when darkness settled across the American economy and hope felt threadbare, President Frank...

Along the storm-polished shores of northern Vancouver Island, where cedar-dark forests lean out over the Salt Chuck and the tide breathes in...

Trekking in Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic When the end-Permian extinction struck 252 million years ago, it nearly wiped the slate clean.  More ...

The Trent River near Courtenay, British Columbia is a hotbed of 85-million-year-old fossil fauna immortalized in stone.  The bedrock of the ...

Tallheo Cannery Perched atop weathered, rotting pilings and wrapped in the mist and mood of British Columbia’s wild north coast sits the Tal...

Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean—if you dare—and you enter the domain of one of Earth’s most spectacular marine predators...

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

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

Behind the glass of the Natural History Museum in London rests the skull of a lion that once prowled—not across the sun-baked mountains of N...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...