FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Step into the sunbaked folds of West Union Canyon, just beyond Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, and you are quite literally walking ...

A lone polar bear moves with quiet power across the snow and sea ice of Nunavut, its massive paws spreading its weight to keep it light atop...

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

Bison move across the prairie like living storms, vast and steady, with the weight of centuries in their stride.  Their dark eyes hold a qui...

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

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica  (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (or Victo...

Dinosaur Track, Tumbler Ridge Imagine kneeling beside a three-toed depression in a slab of sandstone, your fingers tracing the edges of a pr...

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...

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

Aerial View of the Great Pyramids of Giza From above, the Giza Plateau unfurls like a map of human ambition etched into the desert.  Three m...

Built to endure the tests of time, the pyramids of Giza stand as some of the oldest and last remaining wonders of the ancient world.  Rising...

Much of Egypt’s history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as ancient—a land of pharaohs, pyramids, and hieroglyphs etched in stone—bu...

Canada, with its vast and varied landscapes, is a treasure trove of prehistoric wonders.  From towering tyrannosaurs to exquisitely preserve...