FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae.  We know h...

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...

Seals—those sleek, playful creatures that glide through our oceans and lounge on rocky shores—are part of a remarkable evolutionary story st...

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

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...

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...