Showing posts with label huntress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label huntress. Show all posts
Friday, 18 July 2025

SPIRALING BEAUTY: AMMONITES AS INDEX FOSSILS

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Saturday, 5 July 2025

FOSSIL HUNTRESS PODCAST: DEAD SEXY SCIENCE

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Geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress. If you love paleontology, you will love this stream. Dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites—you'll fi...
Friday, 4 July 2025

FOSSIL FRESHWATER SALMON FROM KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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Fossilized Salmon gifted to the Huntress by John Leahy Nestled in the interior of British Columbia, the region around Kamloops is a dry, sag...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

MIGWAT: SLEEK, PLAYFUL SEALS

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Seals—those sleek, playful creatures that glide through our oceans and lounge on rocky shores—are part of a remarkable evolutionary story st...
Friday, 27 June 2025

PORT HARDY: TIME AND TIDE

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One of the most beautiful areas of Vancouver Island is the town of Port Hardy on the north end of the island.  Just outside Port Hardy furth...
Monday, 16 June 2025

FOSSIL HUNTRESS PODCAST

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Close your eyes & fly with me as we head out together to explore Earth's rich history written in her rock. Travel to extraordinary p...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

GULLS ON THE FORESHORE: TSIK'WI

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A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the subord...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

NASAL SACS AND CHILLY WATERS: HOODED SEALS

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If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you ...
Monday, 19 May 2025

BRONZE BEAUTY: EIFELIAN PARALEJURUS

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This bronzed beauty is the Middle Devonian, Eifelian (~395 mya) trilobite, Paralejurus rehamnanus (Alberti, 1970) from outcrops near Issoum...
Tuesday, 13 May 2025

SKØKKENMØDDINGER: CaCO3(s) + 2HCl(aq) → CaCl2(aq) + CO2(g) + H2O(l)

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Johnny Scow's Kwakw a k a 'wakw Kwakiutl House, 1918 Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. Some...
Friday, 9 May 2025

FOSSILS OF HORNBY ISLAND

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Diplomoceras sp . This gorgeous cream and brown big beast of a heteromorph, Diplomoceras (Diplomoceras) sp. , (Hyatt, 1900) was found within...
Friday, 2 May 2025

AINOCERAS: VANCOUVER ISLAND HETEROMORPH

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

FOSSILS OF CANADA'S EASTERN SHORES

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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

LOTUS FLOWER FRUIT

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Lotus Flower Fruit, Nelumbo This beauty is the fruit of the lotus, Nelumbo . This specimen was found by Green River Stone (GRS) in early Eoc...
Sunday, 27 April 2025

FOSSIL HUNTRESS PODCAST: DEAD SEXY SCIENCE

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Geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress. If you love paleontology, you will love this stream. Dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites—you'll fi...
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

15TH BCPA SYMPOSIUM, COURTENAY: AUG 22-25, 2025

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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...
Friday, 11 April 2025

ANCIENT ORNAMENTS OF THE SEA: FOSSIL PEARL

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One of my favourite pairs of earrings are a simple set of pearls. I have worn them pretty much every day since 2016 when I received them as ...