FOSSIL HUNTRESS

 

The Stawamus Chief, the second largest freestanding piece of granite in the world, has made Squamish one of the top rock climbing destina...

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

Look at this lovely maternal bond between an adult Humpback whale female, Megaptera novaeangliae , and her young. Humpbacks are a species ...

Plant fossils from the Okanagan highlands, an area centred in the Interior of British Columbia, provide important clues to an ancient clim...

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

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

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...