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This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

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

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...

The Bearded Seal Bartrobbe — the bearded seal ( Erignathus barbatus ) — is a familiar and charismatic presence in the high Arctic waters sur...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Mixosaurus sp . from Middle Triassic Seas If you ever wanted to meet an ichthyosaur halfway between “sleek dolphin missile” and “awkward cro...

Toxodon  was a hulking, hippo-sized grazing mammal that once roamed the ancient grasslands, wetlands, and scrub of South America.  The creat...

At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...

Bryce Canyon National Park  From above, Bryce Canyon National Park looks less like a place on Earth and more like a revealed secret—an ancie...

This graceful beauty, with its elegant, sail-like fins and armour of shimmering scales, is Albertonia sp. —an Early Triassic ganoid fish wh...

Step into deep time with the Fossil Huntress Podcast—your warm and wonder-filled gateway to dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, and the astoni...

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

Upper Cambrian Trilobite Outcrops When most people imagine British Columbia, they picture sky-scraping mountains, temperate rainforests drip...