FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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...

Tethys Ocean Long before the first pharaohs ruled the Nile, Egypt lay beneath the warm, shallow waters of the Tethys Ocean—a vanished sea th...

There are days here on the coast when the sea turns to slate, and the light slips low behind Vancouver Island, and that is when they come.  ...

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

At ungodly-o’clock in the morning, while the rest of us are still grumbling into our pillows, European flamingos are out there looking like ...

Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognizable as Stegosaurus , with its double row of towering bony plates and spiked tail.  This herbivore, w...

Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world ...

Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...