FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Eighty million years ago, long before Texas acquired highways, cattle ranches or the unshakeable belief that everything should be larger the...

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

Coprolites: Fossil Poop Not every fossil enters the scientific record wrapped in dignity. Some emerge from the rock with elegant ribs, formi...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , tip-toes toward a frisky (and very startled) Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis — two wonderfully ...

Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene whe...

There are fossils that whisper and then there are those that positively sing. This interesting beauty is a splendid specimen of Anahoplites...

Blue Whale Remains, Balaenoptera musculus Along the stony shore of Jougla Point, near Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula, a scatter of ...

Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hec...

Smilodon Skull at La Brea Tar Pits In the heart of Los Angeles, surrounded by traffic, office towers and people carrying coffees of improbab...

Let us begin with a rather brutal truth. You are probably not going to become a fossil. Neither am I. Neither is the salmon that washed onto...

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

Meet one of the most wonderfully peculiar animals to ever grace our ancient seas.  This five-eyed marvel swam through the Cambrian oceans so...

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