FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Tethys Ocean Long before the first pharaohs ruled the Nile, Egypt lay beneath the warm, shallow waters of the Tethys Ocean—a vanished sea th...

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...

Icelandic Horses These beauties are Icelandic horses who graced me with their energy and spirit for a series of feel-good photoshoots along ...

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

Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...

Long, long ago—millions of years before you or me, before the canoes of the Polynesian voyagers, before the first birds ever touched these s...

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

In the early days of paleontology, men were men, and women, quite frankly, were not paleontologists, geologists, members of the Royal Societ...

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

A trip along Chuckanut Drive, in northwestern Washington is a chance to view incredible diversity from sea to sky. An amazing array of plant...

This lovely slate grey and beige ammonite with the fine ribbing is B rewericeras hulenense (Anderson 1938) — a fast-moving, nektonic (no id...

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

A stunning example of the heteromorph ammonite, Hyphantoceras orientale macroconch. This beauty corresponds to 'Morphotype C' fro...

Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of the continent on the move westward, eventually bumping up against...

The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountains against a clear blue sky.  That is no...

Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...