FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis in 2018. An exciting find to be sure. ...

Coleman Shrimp /  Periclimenes colemani These daring lovelies are Coleman shrimp, Periclimenes colemani . They are generally found in ma...

Superfamilia Tropitaceae Mojsisovics , 1875. Familia Tropitidae Mojsisovics , 1893. Genus Discotropites Hyatt & Smith, 1925. Type: Dis...

This braw fellow is Ceratiocaris papilio (Salter in Murchison, 1859) a pod Shrimp from the Silurian mudstones of the Kip Burn Formation in...

Horsefly / Diptera / Tabanidae; Latreille, 1802 Horseflies are true flies in the family Tabanidae, order Diptera. They are quite large a...

This lovely specimen is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis , from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukrai...

More than a 100 groups of mammals and a wide variety of plants have been found in the early Miocene, 39-19 million year old, John Day ...

An amazing mummified tilefish, Branchiostegus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782) from Holocene deposits near Shizuoka, Japan. This specimen shows...

A beautiful example of the "deeply groovy" decapod, Dorippe sinica , from Holocene deposits near Shizuoka, Japan. This regal fel...

Bristolia insolens A stunning Cambrian trilobite, Bristolia insolens , from Frenchman Mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada. The mountain pr...

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

If you’re wondering if you have Fossil Bone, you’ll want to look for the telltale texture on the surface. It’s best to take the specimen o...

This lovely specimen is Zeacrinites magnoliaeformis, an Upper Mississippian-Chesterian crinoid found by Keith Metts in the Glen Dean Forma...

Dinosaurs, long hailed as the rulers of the Triassic almost lost the title belt to a group of crocodilian upstarts, the crurotarsans. In a...

Hexacorallia is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising approximately 4,300 species of aquatic organisms formed of polyps, generally with six-fo...

Moon Jelly Fish / Aurelia Aurita Aurelia aurita (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a wide...

This lovely big fella is Isotelus rex from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. He was found along the Hudson Bay and is the largest complete tril...

Driving down the Oregon coast, you see large basalt sentinels left stranded on the beaches. The surf rubs at them slowly eroding a story t...

Female Spotted Hyena / Sub-Saharan Africa This lovely lady is a spotted hyena. While she looks like a large dog, she shares more similar...

In Sauropterygia, a diverse group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, fossil evidence of viviparity (live‐bearing) only exists for Pachypleurosau...

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 ...