FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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Sunday, 30 June 2019

PLESIOSAURS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST

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Plesiosaur vertebrae / Liam Langley Collection These two lovely Plesiosaur vertebrae were found by Liam Langley on fossil field trips to...
Saturday, 29 June 2019

BRACHIOPOD

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Fossil Brachiopod / Prolific Palaeozoic Shellfish Looking down at the pebbly sand, you see just the wee top of this lovely fossil brachi...
Friday, 28 June 2019

NEOCOMITES OF SPAIN

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Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus This beautiful specimen is  Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus a fast-moving nektonic carnivorous...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

FOSSIL PREPARATION: MAMMOTH TEETH

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Mammoths of Wrangell Island Mammoths were were herbivore grazers native to Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. They lived out their ...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

EOCENE FOSSIL TURTLE

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Baena arenosa / Green River Stone Company An Eocene Cryptodiran Fossil Turtle, Baena arenosa , from fine-grained lime mud outcrops in th...
Tuesday, 25 June 2019

FOSSIL SAND DOLLARS

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Fossil Sand Dollars / Cassibuloid Ancestry These lovelies are fossil sand dollars with their beautiful five-fold radial symmetry and pet...
Monday, 24 June 2019

BLUE MUSSELS

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Blue Mussels / Mytilus edulis Blue mussels live in intertidal areas and inlets attached to rocks and other hard substrates by strong, st...
Sunday, 23 June 2019

PREHISTORIC BOWFIN

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Calamopleurus cylindricus (Agassiz, 1841) / Collection of David Murphy This well-preserved fossil fish skull is from Calamopleurus (Agas...
Friday, 21 June 2019

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

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Mammoth Hot Springs Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho is a 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness rec...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019

ANCIENT SALMON OF THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR

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Sockeye Salmon / Oncorhynchus nerka In the southern Interior, ice built up first in the northern Selkirk Mountains, then slowly flowed d...
Monday, 17 June 2019

HAIDA GWAII BOUNTY

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Seafood Bounty / Haida Gwaii, British Columbia “When the tide is out, the table is set.” This wisdom from those who call Haida Gwaii hom...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

RED-TAILED RAPTOR

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Red-Tailed Raptor / Buteo jamaicensis The majestic Buteo jamaicensis are easily identified by the red upper surface of their broad tail...
Saturday, 15 June 2019

PLEISTOCENE SOCKEYE SALMON

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Salmon have permeated First Nations mythology and have been prized as an important food source for thousands of years.  For the Tk...
Friday, 14 June 2019

CRETACEOUS CRANBERRY ARMS

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Middle Campanian Plant Fossils / Cranberry Arms Back in 1996, Vancouver Island local, Jim Bell was moving rocks with his excavator near ...
Wednesday, 12 June 2019

A RARE BIT OF TURTLE

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Fossil Turtle / Aspideretes subquadratus A rare bit of Turtle Shell from an Aspideretes subquadratus, Upper Cretaceous, Belly River Form...
Tuesday, 11 June 2019

MCABEE FOSSIL SITE RE-OPENS

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Eocene Plant Fauna / Eohiodon Fish Fossil / McAbee An Eohiodon rosei and Eocene plant fossils from the McAbee Fossil Beds. McAbee is par...
Monday, 10 June 2019

DINOSAUR TRACKWAY MOLD

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In 2000, Mark Turner and Daniel Helm were tubing down the rapids of Flatbed Creek just below Tumbler Ridge. As they walked up the shorel...

DAIHUA FLOWERS

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Daihua sanqi, Yunnan Province, China This lovely fossil is Daihua sanqiong, an unusual 518-million year old sea creature that shares cha...
Sunday, 9 June 2019

SHONISAURUS SIKANNIENSIS

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Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River Dr. Betsy Nicholls, Rolex Laureate Vertebrate Palaeontologist from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, e...
Saturday, 8 June 2019

CIBELELLA CORONATA

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Cibelella Coronata / Photo: Alexei Molchanov A spectacular specimen of the trilobite Cibelella Coronata from upper Ordovician deposits a...
Wednesday, 5 June 2019

EVENING ON ISAAC LAKE

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Isaac Lake / Bowron Provincial Park Isaac is the longest of the pristine lakes in the Bowron Lake circuit in Bowron Lake Provincial Park...

TIDEPOOLS: VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Monday, 3 June 2019

ARNIOCERAS BEDS: SINEMURIAN AMMONITES

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Arnioceras semicostatum & Arnioceras miserable These beauties are from the Arnioceras beds near Last Creek, British Columbia. The fo...
Sunday, 2 June 2019

MIGHTY MARINE REPTILES: ICHTHYOSAURUS

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Blue Lias Ichthyosaur / Photo: Lewis Winchester-Ellis Ichthyosaurs were particularly abundant in the later Triassic and early Jurassic p...
Saturday, 1 June 2019

NORTH CASCADES

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North Cascades, Cascade Range, western North America
Thursday, 30 May 2019

OREGON: FOSSILS ALONG THE FARALLON PLATE

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Had you been swimming with the marine fossils that were laid down in the Eocene Epoch in Oregon, some 55 to 38 million years ago, you'...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

VERTIPECTEN FUCANUS

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Vertipecten fucanus / Miocene / Clallam Formation Some water worn samples of the fossil bivalve Vertipecten fucanus from lower Miocene d...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

VISUAL POETRY: ON SUNSETS

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Taking in the beauty and colours of  a sunset One of the most satisfying moments is taking in a sunset after a long days hike. Pure visu...
Monday, 27 May 2019

DIABLO LAKE: NORTH CASCADES

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Saturday, 25 May 2019

DRACULA, DINOSAURS & ANCIENT POT SHARDS

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Râpa Roșie / Magyarosaurus dacus (von Huene, 1932) Râpa Roșie is a geological and botanical reserve in the southwest Secaşelor Plateau, ...
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