FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Two views of a natural endocranial cast articulated with a fragmentary skull of Australopithecus africanus , an early hominid living betwe...

Ophthalmoplax brasiliana   / Photo: José F. Ventura‎ Ventral view of the carnivorous portunoid crab Ophthalmoplax brasiliana (Maury, 19...

Quintus Sertorius, a Roman statesman come general, grew up in Umbria, the green heart of what is now central Italy. Born into a world at w...

Eocene Fossil Feather / McAbee Fossil Beds The McAbee fossil beds are known for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fos...

The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that extend out from the mainland. Crete is the last of this range and boasts ...

Hypodicranotus striatulus Take a gander at this unusual trilobite, Hypodicranotus striatulus  (Walcott, 1875), with his gloriously bulbo...

Recently, I had the very great pleasure of chatting with the deeply awesome "Dinosaur George" Blasting for his Dinosaur George P...

A beautifully articulated Basilemys hand with osteoderms on the palmar surface. This specimen is from outcrops in the Kaiparowits Formati...

Olenellus getzi , Kinzers Formation A beautiful Lower Cambrian trilobite, Olenellus getzi , found in the 520 million years shales of the...

Cadoceras tonniense , Mysterious Creek Formation The Cretaceous-Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake, British Columbia are an easy two...

The late Cretaceous bivalve Inoceramus vancouverensis found in concretion amongst the 72 million year old grey shales of the Northumberlan...

Keuppia levante A wonderful example of Keuppia levante  (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our anc...

The Koala, Phasscolarctos cinereus , is a lovely marsupial native to Australia. These cuddly "teddy bears" are not bears at all....

The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, as we think of it, came into being about 500 million years ago. We refer to that time as the Ediac...

A rather nice Onychodictyon ferox (lobopod) from the Chengjiang Biota, Lower Cambrian, Yunnan, China. The Lobopodians, or Velvet Worms, ar...

Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. These sites were both home, providing continuity and community and a...

This lovely big fellow is Tylostoma tumidum , an epifaunal grazing Lower Cretaceous Gastropod from white, micritic, coarsely nodular limes...

Pentremites sp. / Hardin County, Kentucky This wee lovely Blastoid is Pentremites sp.  from Mississippian deposits in Hardin County, Ke...

Tragophylloceras loscombi / Dorset Coast A very interesting Tragophylloceras loscombi (134 mm with the peristome / 41 mm) from Lower Pl...

Platryachella sp . / Devonian Brachiopod This fellow is Platyrachella sp . a brachiopod from Middle Devonian deposits of the renamed the...

Oligocene Fossil Whale vertebrae from Majestic Beach, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. These lovely water worn specimens are di...

This may be the cutest fossil skull you'll see all day. This is  Microtheriomys brevirhinus,  an adorable teeny, 19 mm, fossil beaver ...

Protoeaster nodosus / Chocolate Chip Sea Star If you're lucky enough to swim in the warm, shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region...

Tuzoia sinensis (Pan, 1957) / York Yuxi Wang Collection A large extinct bivalved arthropod, Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian de...

Libonectes atlasense / Andy Chua Collection A beautifully preserved mandible of an Libonectes atlasense, an elasmosaurid plesiosaur fro...

Ankylosaur Trackway / Tumbler Ridge A detailed view of the Dinosaur Trackway near Wolverine River, Tumbler Ridge, northeastern British C...

Fossil Field Trip / Ankylosaur Trackway After an exciting hike in the dark through the woods and down a steep incline, we reached the ri...

Dinosaur Trackway / Trace Fossils Walking along the beach at sunset, the last rays of the day catch the edges of ancient trackways of me...

Red Ochre Pictograph / Dan Bowden Photography BC's interior is home to thousands of red ochre pictographs that symbolize the connect...

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