FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Finding a fossil is like time-traveling with your hands. One moment you’re walking along a riverbank or quarry, scanning the ground, and the...

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

Along the storm-lashed shores of Vancouver Island, the west coast wolves move like shadows—silent, salt-streaked, and born of the sea.  Thei...

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

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

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...

A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...

Seals—those sleek, playful creatures that glide through our oceans and lounge on rocky shores—are part of a remarkable evolutionary story st...

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...

Aturia angustata , Lower Miocene, WA This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near Clallam Bay, O...

In 1788, a remarkable specimen of Megatherium americanum , one of the largest known terrestrial sloths, was shipped from the Viceroyalty of...

The Northern Lights over a sea of wildflowers in the marsh near Landmannalaugar, part of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of ...

Modern Whale Vertebrae The air is heavy with salt spray at Muir Creek, just west of Sooke on southern Vancouver Island. Waves tumble over ba...

GREAT BEAR NA̱N Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly ...

Diplomoceras sp . This gorgeous cream and brown big beast of a heteromorph, Diplomoceras (Diplomoceras) sp. , (Hyatt, 1900) was found within...