FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Built to endure the tests of time, the pyramids of Giza stand as some of the oldest and last remaining wonders of the ancient world.  Rising...

Trilobites — in all their many wonderful forms — lived in our ancient oceans for more than 270 million years. The last of their lineage went...

Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets a...

 

Interested in getting out on the water? Consider an easy day paddle or overnight to Widgeon Estuary. The paddling is easy. You can do the ...

Riomaggiore or Rimazuu in the local Ligurian language is a lovely seaside village that can trace its roots to the good taste of Monks who ...

Yellow Lily line pathways and float in the cold, clear lake water. Somewhere I read a suggestion to bring a bathing suit to the park, but a...

Diplograptus floating in Cambrian seas. These colonial animals are known from Middle Cambrian to Lower Carboniferous fossils. The name grap...

Turtle Island  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/turtle-island

In 1788, this magnificent specimen of a Megatherium sloth was sent to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History from the Viceroyalty of Rio de ...

A view from on high. The Stawamus Chief, the second largest freestanding piece of granite in the world, has made Squamish one of the top r...

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 ...

Pale green anemones with soft pink tips cling to the foreshore rocks like living jewels, their tentacles swaying gently in the wash of eac...

Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae.  We know h...

Ammonites were a group of hugely successful aquatic molluscs that looked like the still extant Nautilus, a coiled shellfish that lives off t...

Small but majestic, these Icelandic horses have been bred to adapt perfectly to the rugged wilds of untamed Iceland. They hail from farthe...

A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon in Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Hai...

View from on high of the lovely glacial fjord that is Howe Sound.

Beautiful light reflected in the windows of buildings in the South of France. Look closely and you'll see that those buildings are con...