FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Each year, I grow Ginko and Metasequoia to plant on Earth Day. They serve as an homage to the environment and a offering to Gaia for a cle...

Calcium carbonate reacts with water saturated with carbon dioxide to form the soluble calcium bicarbonate. Bone already contains calcium c...

Varying in size from millimeters to meters across, ammonites are prized as both works of art and index fossils helping us date rock. The...

Desmostylus, Royal Ontario Museum Collection The late Oligocene Sooke Formation outcrops at several coastal localities along the South-w...

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

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

Koala, Phasscolarctos cinereus , are truly adorable marsupials native to Australia. These cuddly "teddy bears" are not bears at al...

 

The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular expanse of interlocking hexagonal basalt columns formed from volcanic eruptions during the Paleo...

A perfect Kepplerites from the collections of Emil Black.

Bayle and Zeiller Atlas, Planche LIX, 1878

Mike Trask, Titan occidentalis, Fernie, BC Titanites occidentalis, the second of these giant ammonite fossils recovered at Coal Mountain...

Koala, Phasscolarctos cinereus , are truly adorable marsupials native to Australia. These cuddly "teddy bears" are not bears at al...

This lovely ocean dancer with her long delicate tentacles or lappets and thicker rouched oral arms is a jellyfish.  Her brethren are playing...

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