FOSSIL HUNTRESS

A sweet as you please example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas ...

The San Juan Islands Archipelago, a group of 175 named islands located in Washington State is in the heart of the Salish Sea, just north of ...

Bears are one of my favourite mammals. Had they evolved in a slightly different way, we might well have chosen them as pets instead of the d...

Male lions run a harrowing, years-long gauntlet to reach adulthood. When they finally reach their prime, bloodshed is a foregone conclusion....

It is day four of our holiday, with two days driving up from Vancouver to Cache Creek, past the Eocene insect and plant site at McAbee, the ...

Arturia angustata nautiloid, Clallam Formation, WA This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is  Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near...

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...

Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian) deposits near Sokoja,...

Rhacolepis Buccalis, an extinct genus of ray-finned fossil fish in carbonate concretion, Lower Cretaceous, Santana Formation, Brazil. Thes...

Goats, Capra hircus , are a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock.  They were domesticated from wild goats, C. a...

Brewericeras hulenense (Anderson 1938) a fast-moving, nektonic (no idle floating here!) carnivorous ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous (Al...

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...