FOSSIL HUNTRESS

The beauties you see here are ichthyosaurs. The largest of their lineage is the genus Shonisaurus who ruled our ancient seas 217 million y...

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

Nevada is a wonderful place to explore our palaeontological history. The state spans a broad spectrum of exposures showcasing the depth of g...

Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...

North Cascades National Park, Washington State, USA Over vast expanses of time, powerful tectonic forces have massaged the western edg...

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

A sweet as you please example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas ...

Unescoceratops koppelhusae , Julius Csotonyi A very sweet small leptoceratopsid dinosaur, Unescoceratops koppelhusae — a new species in th...

A tremendously delicate juvenile Hamites subrotundus  (J. Sowerby 1814) from Upper Albian outcrops in Mallorca, the largest of the three B...

Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...

This lovely little biscuit is a Holectypus sea urchin from 120 million-year-old deposits from the Lagniro Formation of Madagascar. The sp...

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 inky beauty is Prolyelliceras ulrichi (Knechtel, 1947) a fast-moving nektonic carnivorous ammonite from Cretaceous lithified, black, c...

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

This beautiful dinosaur track is from Kalasin Dinosaur Park in northeastern Thailand.  Thailand boasts some of the finest Mesozoic trackways...