FOSSIL HUNTRESS

High in the emerald canopy, a branch sways and sunlight spills through a mosaic of leaves. There—an orangutan moves with unhurried grace, he...

Bison move across the prairie like living storms, vast and steady, with the weight of centuries in their stride.  Their dark eyes hold a qui...

They rise quietly from the earth—tall, time-carved sentinels shaped by wind, water, and patience.  They lean, they shift, they endure. Not i...

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one.  He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for who...

Mist clings to the moss-draped cedars, and the river below churns with the silver flash of salmon fighting upstream.  Then, out of the shado...

Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae.  We know h...

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...

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

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

At ungodly-o’clock in the morning, while the rest of us are still grumbling into our pillows, European flamingos are out there looking like ...

Mammoths are a personal favourite of mine and there is a particularly fetching specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.  Amongst its ...

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

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...