FOSSIL HUNTRESS

While at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this week in New York, I was struck by the beauty of many of their pieces. A sculptured jar that s...

Those working in the Jurassic exposures on Vancouver Island are a determined crew. Most of the sedimentary deposits of the Jurassic are expo...

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 ...

During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals walked the Earth...

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