FOSSIL HUNTRESS

HMS Oriole, Salt Spring Island

Quintus Sertorius, a Roman statesman come general, grew up in Umbria, the green heart of what is now central Italy. Born into a world at...

Metasequoia (dawn redwood) is a fast-growing, deciduous tree native to Lichuan county in Hubei province in central China. It is the so...

This chunky monkey is a Short-beaked Echidna, Tachyclossus aculeatus , which grows to about the size of an overweight cat. They are native t...

Diatryma, a giant flightless bird trackway from an Eocene deposit in Washington State.

Cadoceras tonniense, Mysterious Creek Formation

So, what's next in the story of marine reptiles and dinosaurs? Where are the next big finds to be found? Well, if finds like Shonisa...

A specimen of Grambergia sp., a Middle Triassic-Ansian ammonoid from the Toad Formation of northeastern British Columbia.

The Love Boat, soon you'll be sailing away... Well, perhaps you will but that ship has sailed for this wee fellow. This is a Fossil ...

Here a partial ammonite with lovely oil-spill coloured nacre (ammolite) shows several bite marks. One of the natural predators to ammoni...