FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Orca, Black Fish or Killer Whale — these toothed whales in the oceanic dolphin family are one of the most recognized species in the world. T...

When an elephant drinks, it sucks as much as 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of water into its trunk at a time. Then it curls its trunk under, sticks...

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...

A wonderful replica of Furo Philpotae (Agassiz) fossil fish from the Jurassic of Lyme Regis, UK by Natural Selection Fossils. The origin...

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