FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

This creamy, beige specimen of Aporrhais sp ., is a fossil marine gastropod from the Goodland Formation of Fort Worth, Texas, a limestone un...

Dolphin Fossil Vertebrae Pulled from the cold, turbid bottom of the North Sea, a fossil dolphin vertebra is a small but eloquent survivor of...

Mixosaurus sp . from Middle Triassic Seas If you ever wanted to meet an ichthyosaur halfway between “sleek dolphin missile” and “awkward cro...

At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...

Oxford University Museum of Natural History was established in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the University of Oxfo...

There is a particular kind of quiet magic in the world, the sort that sends a small shiver of awe through you when all the elements of deep ...

The massive marine reptile vertebra you see here—broad, five-sided, drum-shaped, and heavy enough to require two hands to lift—once belonged...

Step back into the deep Paleozoic—an era that began some 540 million years ago with oceans bustling with trilobites, early fish, and soft-bo...

This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaraghan — Mangy...

Retracing the Steps of Paleontologist Jura (George) Jeletzky on the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island We hiked in under the hush of coasta...

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900) Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus , Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington St...

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...

Walk along any rocky beach on the Pacific coast after a storm, and you’ll likely find a treasure trove of kelp washed ashore—long ribbons of...

Ankylosaur — Armoured Plant-Eating Dinosaur Ankylosaurs were armoured dinosaurs. We find their fossil remains in Cretaceous outcrops in wes...

Dragonflies are graceful, glimmering fliers we see as sparkling bits of colour darting over ponds and streams, but these agile insects have ...

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...