FOSSIL HUNTRESS

These festive lovelies are jellyfish. Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to our deepest seas — and they are old. Th...

This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) spinula (Westrop, 1986) an Upper Cambrian trilobite from the McKay Group near Tanglef...

Kourisodon puntledgensis Mosasaurs were large, globally distributed marine predators who dominated our Late Cretaceous oceans. Since t...

Totem, Welcome & Mortuary Poles at Stanley Park If you visit Brockton Point in Stanley Park, there are many carved red cedar First Natio...

Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, like radio or microwaves. Some aspects of light, such as its frequency (colour), are based on ...

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

Squamish Valley / Mother of Wind Eagles, bears and breathtakingly beautiful scenery await those who travel north of Vancouver, British C...

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

Common Pheasant, Phasianus Cholchicus These playful lovelies with the gorgeous gold and green plumage are beautiful examples of the Comm...

Cougars are meat-eating mammals, preferring to dine on deer.  They are impressive athletes, able to leap 18 feet or more straight upward f...

On his first night in Alert Bay, after dinner with Stephen Allen Spencer and his two brothers-in-law, each, like Spencer, was married to a si...

Moon Raven Pole at Saxman Totem Park Ketchikan is truly the totem capital of the world, and if you want to see the most standing totems in o...

In the early 1980s, Tim Tozer, Geological Survey of Canada, looked at the distribution of marine invertebrate fauna in the Triassic of Nor...

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

Amazing suturing on this lovely ammonite, Holcophylloceras mediterraneum, (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) deposits near Soko...

A very pleasing example of the Ammonite Acanthohoplites bigoureti (Seunes, 1887). Lower Cretaceous, Upper Aptian, from a riverbed concretion...

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...