FOSSIL HUNTRESS

We soak up the breathtaking views after a long morning's paddle. The east and south sides of our route are bound by the imposing white...

Out in the woods and wondering what the temperature is? Slip down to the nearest stand of deciduous trees to search for the wee Snowy...

This sweet beauty with lovely colouring is a Hoploscaphites nebrascensis (Owen, 1852) macroconch. This is the female form of the ammonite ...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , checking out the view from a tree branch. His mamma is likely very near by as they keep an eye ...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (and potenti...

Nemrut, Adıyaman / Turkey

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

Fergusonites hendersonae (Longridge, 2008) Meet Fergusonites hendersonae , a Late Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonite from the Taseko ...

Ichthyosaur vertebrae, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park At least 37 incomplete fossil specimens of the marine reptile have been found in ha...

Lovely defined sutures on this rather involute, high-whorled hoplitid ammonite from the middle part of the Lower Albian in the Mahajanga P...

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...