FOSSIL HUNTRESS

One of the most beautiful areas of Vancouver Island is the town of Port Hardy on the north end of the island.  Just outside Port Hardy furth...

A lovely Dactylioceras ammonite from the Lower Jurassic Upper Lias Holderness of the Yorkshire Coast. This beauty measures over 8cm with esp...

One of the fairytale creatures that I was pleased to see truly exist is the seahorse. These marine lovelies are any of 46 species of small m...

For First Nation, Métis & Inuit families, stories of government involvement in family life goes back generations.   The legacy of removi...

This Jurassic ammonite is from an all but inaccessible site in Sayward, Bonanza Group, Vancouver Island. By the time these ammonites wer...

The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago with the first fish lineages belonged to the Agnatha, a superclass of jawless fish...

Graptolites (Graptolita) are colonial animals. The biological affinities of the graptolites have always been debatable. Originally regarde...

 

Diablo Lake is a reservoir in the North Cascade mountains of northern Washington state

High up in the Canadian Rockies in an area known as Burgess Pass is one of the most unlikely, perfect and improbable fossil sites on Ear...

Alsatites proaries, Photo Source: Wikipedia At the end of the Rhaetian (part of the Triassic period), most of the ammonites had died out...

Fort Stražnik, Orjen, Montenegro

Ammonites were prolific breeders that evolved rapidly. If you could cast a fishing line into our ancient seas, it is likely that you would...

Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro

 

In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl or Kwakwaka'wakw, speakers of Kwak'wala , of the Pacific Northwest, orca or killer whale...

A short 90-minute drive north of the city of Vancouver, the nation's gateway to the Pacific, is a recreational Shangri-La ...