FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

Glorious Parasaurolophus art work by Daniel Eskridge Morning mist curls along the banks of a wide, slow river. The air is heavy with the ear...

Dinosaur Track, Tumbler Ridge Imagine kneeling beside a three-toed depression in a slab of sandstone, your fingers tracing the edges of a pr...

Step back into the deep Paleozoic—an era that began some 540 million years ago with oceans bustling with trilobites, early fish, and soft-bo...

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...

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...

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...

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

At ungodly-o’clock in the morning, while the rest of us are still grumbling into our pillows, European flamingos are out there looking like ...

Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world ...

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart.  Meet Suchomimus tenerensis , a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what...

Armadillos, part tank, part roly-poly If you’ve ever seen an armadillo, you know they look like something straight out of a prehistoric cart...

Temnodontosaurus crassimanus Meet Temnodontosaurus crassimanus — the sea monster that looked like someone asked nature to weld a dolphin...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...

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