FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis ( Parabolinoides ) spinula (Westrop, 1986), an Upper Cambrian trilobite recovered from the McKay Group...

A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Many of us have the good fortune to live near the sea. It is one of the places I ...

Step into the sunbaked folds of West Union Canyon, just beyond Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, and you are quite literally walking ...

Dimetrodon by Daniel Eskridge In the steamy forests of the early Permian, some 295 million years ago, a Dimetrodon prowls through a world t...

A lone polar bear moves with quiet power across the snow and sea ice of Nunavut, its massive paws spreading its weight to keep it light atop...

Saber-Toothed Cat,  Machairodus aphanistus The skull before you lies cradled in a glass case at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in ...

Deep inside the largest and deepest gold mine in North America scientists are looking for dark matter particles and neutrinos instead of...

This showy Christmas Cracker is a Dinoflagellate The showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate.  Bi...

Bothriolepis canadensis A stunning replica of Bothriolepis canadensis from Upper Devonian (Frasnian), Escuminac formation, Parc de Miguasha,...

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

Dodo Birds by Daniel Eskridge Two dodo birds—one warm brown like sun-baked coconut husk, the other a pale, ghostly white with hints of grey—...

Bison move across the prairie like living storms, vast and steady, with the weight of centuries in their stride.  Their dark eyes hold a qui...

Alnashetri cerropoliciensis Slip back 90 million years and wander the sun-baked floodplains of Patagonia, where the giants get all the glory...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , tip-toes toward a frisky (and very startled) Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis — two wonderfully ...

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

They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don’t hear an owl arrive.  You feel it—the brief shift in th...