FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Images of darkened valleys, golden late summer light, icy-blue glaciers, white caps on an endless Pacific, small, hardy, yet perfect alpin...

If you live in North American, there is a high probability that you have seen or heard the bird song of the Blue jay,  Cyanocitta cristata ...

Ammonites (and two gastropods) from the Arnioceras beds near Last Creek in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The fossils found here are from...

Einiosaurus procurvicornis was a horned dinosaur that roamed North America 74 million years ago. We find their bones in mass bone beds in C...

 

Bald Eagle / Kwikw /  Haliaeetus leucocephalus A mighty Bald Eagle sitting with wings spread looks to be controlling the weather with his wi...

Machairodus aphanistus , Batallones, Madrid 9 Ma. Vallesiense, Mioceno

The sauropterygians are a group of diverse extinct aquatic marine reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end Pe...

Ursus spelaeus. Aitzkirri, Guipuzcoa. Pleistoceno superior

Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 grizzlies, roam the Ca...

The genus Torvosaurus includes a unique species of megalosaurid therapod dinosaur. This fellow is from the Morrison Format...

One of the most beautiful in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympic Peninsula from Port Angeles to Neah Bay. This stretch of coastline is ...

This wee skull of a Microtheriomys brevirhinus from the John Day Formation is an adorable 19 mm. Yeah, he's pretty cute! Paleonto...

Mammutus primigenius. Pleistocene. Siberia, Russia

Radiolarian microfossils, tiny, siliceous, single-celled organisms, make for excellent timekeepers. Think of them as the world's sma...

Noleggio de Marche, Riomaggiore, Italy

Mammutus primigenius. Pleistocene. Siberia, Russia

The fine-grained shales that make up the Burgess were once part of the ancient landmass known as Laurentia, the ancient geologic core of t...