FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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...

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

Yorkshire Coast You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , found in an alum quarry in Y...

A beautiful specimen of the ammonite, Anahoplites planus (Mantell, 1822) from Albian deposits in Villemoyenne Quarry, Courcelles, Aube, nor...

Ophthalmoplax brasiliana   / Photo: José F. Ventura‎ Ventral view of the carnivorous portunoid crab Ophthalmoplax brasiliana (Maury, 19...

This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae. We know him from our gardens where we se...

Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) A stunning example of the internal suturing with calcite infill in this sliced  Aioloceras besa...

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

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

Coahuilaceratops or "Coahuila Horn Face," is a relatively new genus of Ornithischia Ceratopsidae, a  herbivorous ceratopsian di...

This lovely ocean dancer—with her long delicate tentacles or lappets and thicker ruched oral arms—is a jellyfish.  Her brethren are playing ...