FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Pterodactylus spectabilis  Imagine the warm, shallow lagoons of what is now southern Germany during the Late Jurassic, some 150 million year...

Triassic Paper clams, Pardonet Formation In the rugged foothills of Pine Pass, near the small northern British Columbia town of Chetwynd, th...

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

Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...

Phaeolus schweinitzii A popular and widely used fungus for making natural dyes is the dyer’s polypore, Phaeolus schweinitzii , sometimes cal...

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...

Hadrosaur Eggs Standing before a clutch of fossilized dinosaur eggs for the first time is a deeply moving experience. Unlike towering skelet...

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

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...

A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...

In a kingdom of waves and drifting kelp, the sea otters reign—rolling, tumbling, and spinning like acrobats in the surf.  With shells for dr...

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