FOSSIL HUNTRESS

What looked to be a small stroke of genius in the fight against global warming has resulted in huge disaster. Planktos, a California-based c...

A surprisingly warm sunny morning sparked a return trip to the Cretaceous-Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake, British Columbia. The lake ...

Scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University have pieced together a bizarre marine predator who trolled the seas some 505-million years ago. ...

The Cambrian was a time of expansion for the Earths more complex animal forms. Molluscs and arthropods or their friends with hard shells a...

Much ado about something - New evidence points to a celestial end for the wooly mammoth and many large mammals. A swarm of comets that smack...

Located as they are in Canada’s most active earthquake zone, the Queen Charlotte Islands have had their share of shake-ups and scourings. Ma...

Have you ever seen headless salmon littering the banks of rivers and streams during spawning season? Most who have generally blame our local...

The arrival of cedar, called “Tsuuaay” by the Haida, had profound effects on the material culture of the Haida (Approx 4000 BC). Once they w...

While evidence of 95-million year old therapods from Africa is quite scare making one think that each fragment would be treated like gold, t...

In 2004, a scientific crew braced the cold and the odds to extract a sediment core from 400m below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean. The core ...

The past few years, I've had occasion to travel to Bucharest, Romania for work. Each time I'm there, of course, there is always a gr...

The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwaii means “island of the people,” it is a shortened ve...

Water was home to the earliest life forms, the prokaryotes, simple cells without nuclei. "There is grandeur in this view of life, with ...

Ammonites looked like the still extant Nautilus, a coiled shellfish that lives off the southern coast of Asia. They were kissing cousins in ...

While in no way sexy, paleomagnetic dating stands the test of time for being useful. You probably remember a demo from science class where a...