FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Fossil crabs, several dozen species of mulluscs including the elusive tusk shell have been found in the fossil exposures of the Lincoln Cr...

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

Third Beach in La Push, Washington This is the view of low tide exposing the coastal rocks and sea stacks at Third Beach in La Push, Olympic...

Johann Hermann's Pterodactylus , 1800 In the grand annals of science, few discoveries have flapped into history with quite as much confu...

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

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

Spinosaurus, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Egypt is often celebrated for its pyramids and pharaohs, but beneath those golden sands lies ...

This lovely big fellow is Tylostoma tumidum, an epifaunal grazing Lower Cretaceous Gastropod from the Goodland Formation near Fort Worth, ...

George Mustoe of the Burke Museum preparing to make a mould of a palm trunk that once gew in the wetlands that bordered an ancient river.

A spectacular specimen of the trilobite Erbenochile erbeni. This impressive fossil arthropod shows unusual schizochroal eyes characteristi...

Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific nam...

Triassic Paper clams, Pardonet Formation In the rugged foothills of Pine Pass, near the small northern British Columbia town of Chetwynd, th...

 

 

During the early Triassic period, ichthyosaurs evolved from a group of unidentified land reptiles that returned to the sea. They were pa...

Walk along any rocky beach on the Pacific coast after a storm, and you’ll likely find a treasure trove of kelp washed ashore—long ribbons of...

A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the subord...

If you are looking for a wee fossil day trip, then a stroll down to the Capilano River is just the thing. From downtown Vancouver, drive...