FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park High on the hillside up a long entry road sits the entrance to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in ...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...

Coroniceras sp. from Sayward, British Columbia This yummy Lower Jurassic ammonite with the creamy dark chocolate colouring is from an all bu...

A lovely rolled trilobite, Calymene blumenbachii ,  from outcrops in the UK. This wee beauty is in the collections of the deeply awesome The...

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

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

You are cordially invited to the 15th BCPA Symposium, August 22-25, 2025 at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay in the Comox Valley, Va...

Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Wat...

Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...

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

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