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...

There’s a particular kind of madness that takes hold when you arrive at Kimmeridge Bay on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset.  You tell yourself y...

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

 

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

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

Dinosaur Track, Tumbler Ridge Imagine kneeling beside a three-toed depression in a slab of sandstone, your fingers tracing the edges of a pr...

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

A lazy walrus lounges on an ice floe, its massive, blubbery body shimmering under the low Arctic sun.  With a deep, rumbling sigh, it shifts...