FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...

A sweet little water bug from the suborder Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810). He looks more like a cartoon character that any other specimen I&#...

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...

Uintacrinus socialis from Utah, USA Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms. It is magical when all the elements come together to pres...

This showy Christmas Cracker is a Dinoflagellate The showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate.  Bi...

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...

Manatees do not live year-round in Texas, but these gentle sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a summer vacation and r...

Apodoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Apoderoceras is a wonderful example of sexual dimorphism within ammonites as the macroconch (female) s...

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

A tremendously delicate juvenile Hamites subrotundus  (J. Sowerby 1814) from Upper Albian outcrops in Mallorca, the largest of the three B...

Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...

Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...

This lovely little biscuit is a Holectypus sea urchin from 120 million-year-old deposits from the Lagniro Formation of Madagascar. The sp...

One of the first scientific accounts of a well-preserved woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius,  frozen in Siberia described the meat as ent...

This lovely slate grey and beige ammonite with the fine ribbing is B rewericeras hulenense (Anderson 1938) — a fast-moving, nektonic (no id...

This inky beauty is Prolyelliceras ulrichi (Knechtel, 1947) a fast-moving nektonic carnivorous ammonite from Cretaceous lithified, black, c...

The chunky ammonite Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, bed II (iv), Folkstone Gault Clay, county of Kent, southeast England. This matrix yo...