FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

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

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

Temnodontosaurus crassimanus Meet Temnodontosaurus crassimanus — the sea monster that looked like someone asked nature to weld a dolphin...

Dolphin Fossil Vertebrae Pulled from the cold, turbid bottom of the North Sea, a fossil dolphin vertebra is a small but eloquent survivor of...

Step into deep time with the Fossil Huntress Podcast—your warm and wonder-filled gateway to dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, and the astoni...

Gargoyleosaurus by Daniel Eskridge Step back into the lush forests of the Late Jurassic, about 155 million years ago, where ferns brushed t...

Icelandic Horses These beauties are Icelandic horses who graced me with their energy and spirit for a series of feel-good photoshoots along ...

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

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

Geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress. If you love paleontology, you will love this stream. Dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites—you'll fi...

Close your eyes & fly with me as we head out together to explore Earth's rich history written in her rock. Travel to extraordinary p...

Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, BC We all love the idea of discovering a new species—especially a fossil species lost to ti...

This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa.  This l...

Tucked high in the Canadian Rockies above the tiny hamlet of Field, British Columbia, lies one of the most extraordinary fossil sites on Ear...

When we think of prehistoric creatures, dinosaurs usually steal the spotlight. But beneath the ancient waves swam giants just as awe-inspiri...

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

Misty shores, moss covered forests, a rich cultural history, dappled light, fossils and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida...

Deep inside the largest and deepest gold mine in North America scientists are looking for dark matter particles and neutrinos instead of...

Some lovely examples of Douvilleiceras mammillatum ( Schlotheim, 1813), ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous (Middle-Lower Albian) Douvillice...