FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Plesiosaur vertebrae / Liam Langley Collection These two lovely Plesiosaur vertebrae were found by Liam Langley on fossil field trips to...

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

Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus This beautiful specimen is  Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus a fast-moving nektonic carnivorous...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salmon have permeated First Nations mythology and have been prized as an important food source for thousands of years.  For the Tk'...

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

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

Eocene Plant Fauna / Eohiodon Fish Fossil / McAbee An Eohiodon rosei and Eocene plant fossils from the McAbee Fossil Beds. McAbee is par...

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

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

Cibelella Coronata / Photo: Alexei Molchanov A spectacular specimen of the trilobite Cibelella Coronata from upper Ordovician deposits a...

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

 

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

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

North Cascades, Cascade Range, western North America

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'...

Vertipecten fucanus / Miocene / Clallam Formation Some water worn samples of the fossil bivalve Vertipecten fucanus from lower Miocene d...

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...

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