FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...

Mammoths are a personal favourite of mine and there is a particularly fetching specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.  Amongst its ...

This creamy, beige specimen of Aporrhais sp ., is a fossil marine gastropod from the Goodland Formation of Fort Worth, Texas, a limestone un...

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...

Proceratopyge rectispinata A lovely creamy brown Proceratopyge rectispinata trilobite from Upper Cambrian deposits in the McKay Group near ...

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