FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Around 45-50 million years ago, during the middle Eocene, a number of freshwater lakes appeared in an arc extending from Smithers in nort...

When we are out enjoying the gorgeous wilderness that surrounds us, we think more about air quality and how amazing our world really it. Whe...

Slimeball, a derogative term to be sure from the modern usage, but before it was ever dragged down to the world of insults and verbal nas...

The Big House at Tsaxis designed by Tony Hunt Fort Rupert was and still is an historic Kwagu'ł (Kwakiutl) village by the name of Tsaxis ...

The dinosaurs of Australia disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous, as they did the world over. Their departure marked the end of the s...

Chuckanut Drive is much younger than other parts of Washington. The fossils found there lived and died some 40-55 million years ago, very cl...

Calcium Carbonate: Mother Natures Little Helper

No visit to BC's Peace Region is complete without a trip to the Tumbler Ridge Museum. In 2000, Mark Turner and Daniel Helm were tubing d...

We soak up the breathtaking views after a long morning's paddle. The east and south sides of our route are bound by the imposing white p...

Hatshepsut, whose name means, "Foremost of Noble Ladies, was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the time o...

Dragonflies, from the order Odonata, have been around for over 250 million years. The most conspicuous difference in their evolution over ti...

Over vast expanses of time, powerful tectonic forces have massaged the western edge of the continent, smashing together a seemingly endless ...

We may one day have wooly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), extinct since the Pleistocene, roaming around zoos and colder climes. At least i...