FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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...

Johann Hermann's Pterodactylus , 1800 In the grand annals of science, few discoveries have flapped into history with quite as much confu...

Hope Whale Stepping into the Natural History Museum, I was immediately greeted by Hope, the enormous blue whale skeleton gliding above Hintz...

Voay robustus Let’s begin in Madagascar—a place so rich in oddities that it makes Australia look like it’s playing it safe.  Here, until a f...

Banff National Park is breathtaking from any angle, but from the air it feels otherworldly—an alpine tapestry of turquoise lakes, braided ri...

Mister Mozart Cats—those purring enigmas who act like they invented gravity and disdain—have been perfecting their aloof charm for tens of m...

Step through the Jardin des Plantes on a misty Paris morning and you can almost hear the echo of centuries: the whisper of early botanists b...

They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don’t hear an owl arrive.  You feel it—the brief shift in th...

They lift their heads first—dark, liquid eyes catching the shifting light of the Pacific. Then the whiskers twitch, sensing currents and vib...

Mister Kane The good-looking boy you see here is my dog Kane, a loveable Rhodesian Ridgeback who brought many years of happiness to my life....

Dodo Birds by Daniel Eskridge Two dodo birds—one warm brown like sun-baked coconut husk, the other a pale, ghostly white with hints of grey—...

Misty shores, moss-covered forests, dappled light, and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida Gwaii, a land where ancient stor...

Nusfjord, Lofoten, Norway In the soft blue twilight of a Lofoten winter, the village of Nusfjord sits cradled between mountains that rise li...

Metasequoia sp. , collection of Judy Hill There is something deeply comforting about encountering a familiar fossil in the company of wonder...