FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park encompasses 1,540 acres. The elevation ranges from 6,840 feet to a high point of 7,880 feet. The hillsides i...

Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian) deposits near Sokoja,...

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...

There is tremendously robust suturing on this lovely ammonite, Holcophylloceras mediterraneum, (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordia...

March Flies are hardy, medium-sized flies in the Order Diptera, with a body length ranging from 4.0 to 10.0 mm. This species is one of the...

In 1788, this magnificent specimen of a Megatherium sloth was sent to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History from the Viceroyalty of Rio de ...

A beautiful plate with a lovely example of the Middle Triassic ammonoid and belemnite from Fossil Hill in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada...

Life on Earth began in the oceans more than 3.5 billion years ago. That means that all of us, all of our homo sapien sapien brethren and e...

A picture-perfect Campanian nautilus, Eutrophoceras irritilansis , who lived during the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) near the town o...

Ferguson Hill contains the most complete macrofossil record spanning the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in North America. The ammonoids from t...

Cougars are meat-eating mammals (primarily dining on deer) who boast being the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphe...

This well-preserved fossil fish skull is from Calamopleurus (Agassiz, 1841), an extinct genus of bony fishes related to the heavily armour...

You and I are vertebrates, we have backbones. Having a backbone or spinal column is what sets apart you, me and almost 70,000 species on t...

The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular expanse of interlocking hexagonal basalt columns formed from volcanic eruptions during the Paleo...

A beautiful example of the decapod, Dorippe sinica , from Holocene deposits near Shizuoka, Japan. This regal fellow has a strongly sculptu...

The oldest and most primitive pteraspidomorphs were the Astraspida and the Arandaspida. You'll notice that all three of these taxon na...

Our collecting area near the Tyaughton Fossil Exposures, Taseko Lakes, British Columbia, Canada. Tyaughton is kind of like El Dorado. Instea...

Tiktaalik was a fish with some advantageous tetrapod-like features that proved to be useful to an adaptation to land. Their head was detac...

The unlikely creature bearing the title of "the first whale," is a fellow named Pakicetus. He is definitely not how we picture w...

Northumberland Fm, Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group A concretion found eroding out of the grey shales at Denman Island. Thee Upper Creta...

Nootka Sound, Photo: Dan Bowen Rugged West Coast VIPS Fossil Field Trip to Late Eocene - Early Oligocene, Hesquiat formation of Nootka I...

Most of the Earth's surface is an ocean. When I think of the Earth, it is our oceans that I picture. Life began there. We began there...

Favret Canyon is considered one of the most important locations for the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian). It is a beautiful, yet desolat...

Three genera of Lower Cambrian fish are known from the 530 million-year-old Chengjiang Lagerstätte in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, southern Chin...

I'd always grouped the dugongs and manatees together. There are slight differences between these two groups. Both groups belong to the...

Many land animals have returned to the sea throughout evolutionary history. We have beautifully documented cases from amphibians, reptiles...

Armoured Agnatha / Photo: Fossilero Fisher This lovely specimen is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis , f...

A stunning example of the ammonite Androgynoceras from the Yorkshire Coast, England. The Geology of Yorkshire in northern England shows ...

Paper clams or 'flat clams' were widespread in the Triassic. We call these bivalves 'flat clams' because of their very thi...

The McAbee Fossil Beds are known for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fossils including lovely plant, insect and fish ...