FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Megalodon teeth A megalodon tooth is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand. The broad crown, thick root and finely serrated edges give us a...

The ancient oceans were full of watchful eyes. Some bulged. Some perched on stalks. And some belonged to animals that looked at the world th...

Mongolian Base Camp Somewhere in the immense stretch of time before familiar shells, claws and skeletons, our earliest animal ancestors bega...

Somewhere in the waters around the Galápagos Islands lives a fish that appears to have applied an enthusiastic coat of bright red lipstick, ...

Picture a meadow beneath an ancient sea. Slender stalks rise from the bottom, each carrying a delicate crown of branching arms. The current ...

The elk you see here, Cervus canadensis , belongs to a lineage stretching deep into the Pleistocene—a time when ice sheets advanced and retr...

Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles.  They cling to ...

Tall, spotty, and just a little bit absurd—let’s talk about the giraffe, nature’s own high-rise browser with a flair for the dramatic. Meet ...

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...

Panopea abrupt (Conrad, 1894) This lovely large fossil bivalve is Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) an extinct species of marine mollusc i...

Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus Imagine cresting a windswept hillside in the fading amber of a Pleistocene sunset.  The tall grass parts in...

Look how epic this little guy is!  He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived.  While that may not be strictl...

Steller’s sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas The Steller’s sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas , was an enormous marine mammal that once grazed the kelp fo...

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900) Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus , Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington St...

Libonectes atlasense / Andy Chua Collection A beautifully preserved mandible of  Libonectes atlasense , an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from...