FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Oreodont skull, John Day Fossil Beds More than a 100 groups of mammals and a wide variety of plants have been found in the early Miocene...

A mix of Muslim and Christian architecture can be found in the stunning, and oh so grand Mosque-Cathedral in Cordoba, southern Spain.  Ori...

Kotsuis and Hohhug, Nakoaktok This stunning image of Kotsuis and Hohhug, Nakoaktok — Nakoaktok men in ceremonial dress, with long beaks, cro...

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...

Irridescent, quick of wing and oh, so beautiful — the wee lovers of nectar who grace our blossoms are hummingbirds. In the Kwak̓wala languag...

Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...

 

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

A very pleasing example of the Ammonite Acanthohoplites bigoureti (Seunes, 1887). Lower Cretaceous, Upper Aptian, from a riverbed concretio...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is in the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico.  It features more than 100 caves. The Natural Entrance is...

 

Carnotaurus sastrei, a genus of large theropod dinosaur that roamed, Argentina, South America during the Late Cretaceous period, 72 to 6...

Craneo Diplodocus carnegiei, Morrison Formation, Jurassic

Nuns stepping out from the palace, Cordoba, Spain A group of nuns stepping out in Cordoba, Spain. The nuns earn their living selling swe...

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven-gill slits on the sides of the head, and pe...

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