FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Wanneria dunnae / Eager Formation There is so much more to Canada than meets the eye. Deep in the ground beneath our feet is window into...

Turtle ribs fuse together with some of their vertebrae so they have to pump air in and out of the lungs with their leg muscles instead? ...

Mammoth Hot Springs Yellowstone National Park

The impressive homeotype specimen of a Eurypterus lacustris duo hails from Late Silurian deposits of New York. These lovelies are now hou...

Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. They started as exclusively marine but have adapted well ...

Fossil Turtle. Photo credit: Luis Lima. Lisbon Museum Collection

Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 grizzlies, roam the Ca...

Brachiopods are bottom-feeding marine animals that appeared at the beginning of the Cambrian. They are abundant little fellows with more t...

Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms. It is magical when all the elements come together to preserve a particularly lovely specimen...

Natural History Museum, Lisbon / Photo credit: Luis Lima This beautiful "old school" gallery you see here is in the National M...

Carcharocles chubutensis , meaning "glorious shark of Chubut," from the ancient Greek is an extinct species of prehistoric mega-...

It has long been accepted that the most recent series of ice ages began approximately 1.6 million years ago, beginning as ice accumulation...

A picture perfect Campanian nautilus, Eutrophoceras irritilansis , from deposits near Coahuila, northern Mexico. Collection of Jose Ventur...

George Mustoe, Sumas Fossil Slide Site The Sumas Fossil Slide Site revealed wonderfully preserved Eocene plant fossils. Here a fossil Pa...

Sumas Slide Site, Sumas, Washington State Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of continent on the mo...

A stunning example of the ammonite Androgynoceras from the Yorkshire Coast, England. This beauty is in the collection of the deeply aweso...

Eocene Fossil Palm Frond

Sumas Fossil Slide Site There was a large downpour that hit Washington State causing massive slides. The blocks you see here all came cr...

Audaces fortuna iuvat Ursus curious! A young Black Bear (Ursus americanus) cub checks out a frisky, startled Striped Skunk (Mephitis mep...

Two beautiful fossil crinoid specimens, Stellarocrinus virgilensis and Braneocrinus , from Pennsylvanian deposits, Bond Formation, LaSall...

This stunning specimen with her regal ridges (and small anomaly) is an Apoderoceras ammonite. Apoderoceras are an extinct genus of cepha...

Dinogorgon Rubidgei / Photo: Jonathan Blair / Corbis A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, this th...

Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group / Denman Island The Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of southwest British Columbia is a four-kilometre thic...

Ichnofossil Trackways. Photo credit: Luis Lima. Lisbon Museum Collection