FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Steeped in mist and mythology, the islands of the Queen Charlottes abound in local lore that surrounds their beginnings. Today, the Hecate...

The strata near Nanaimo and much of eastern Vancouver Island is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous Nanaimo Group. These muds...

The Cambrian was a time of expansion for the Earth's complex animal forms. Molluscs and arthropods and their friends with hard shells a...

This lovely ocean dancer with her long delicate tentacles or lappets and thicker rouched oral arms is a jellyfish.  Her brethren are playing...

Koala, Phasscolarctos cinereus , are truly adorable marsupials native to Australia. These cuddly "teddy bears" are not bears at al...

Toe to Toe with a Theropod — In the outcrops around Clarens, South Africa. We get a bird's eye view (or Theropod's eye view) of life...

Petrified wood is amazing to behold in person. The original tree or branch is sometimes subjected to such a high degree of replacement tha...

The Cretaceous-Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake, British Columbia are an easy two hour drive from Vancouver and another hour or so t...

This lovely big fellow is Tylostoma tumidum , an epifaunal grazing Lower Cretaceous Gastropod from white, micritic, coarsely nodular limes...

Living Fossil / Comb Jelly / Ctenophore This lovely invertebrate is a Comb Jelly, a living fossil. Coined by Charles Darwin, the term “l...

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 strictly...

A new genus and species of prehistoric fish have been named after a Vancouver Island collector who discovered a well-preserved fossil of the...

This fellow is the graptolite, Isograptus cf. maximus, from the Piranha Formation, Middle Ordovician (Dapingian), Bolivia. Graptolites (...

There was a large downpour that hit Washington State causing massive slides. The blocks you see here all came crashing down on the hillsid...

Northwest Bay is located just south of Parksville on Vancouver Island. It is a lovely place to go for a fossil day trip. Purchase a local m...

Moon Raven Pole at Saxman Totem Park Ketchikan is truly the totem capital of the world, and if you want to see the most standing totems in o...