FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis ( Parabolinoides ) spinula (Westrop, 1986), an Upper Cambrian trilobite recovered from the McKay Group...

A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Many of us have the good fortune to live near the sea. It is one of the places I ...

Saber-Toothed Cat,  Machairodus aphanistus The skull before you lies cradled in a glass case at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in ...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...

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—...

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...

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica  (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (or Victo...

This lovely oil in water coloured ammonite is the beauty Beudanticeras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian), Krasnodar region, Nor...

Cassowary, Casuariiformes Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you know your local birds. True, you may call them des Oiseaux, p...

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...

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...

Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...

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

The Bearded Seal Bartrobbe — the bearded seal ( Erignathus barbatus ) — is a familiar and charismatic presence in the high Arctic waters sur...