FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Carixian domerien, Upper Muschelkalk. Photo: Ange Mirabet

The first skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered in 1902 in Hell Creek, Montana, by the Museum's famous fossil hunter Barnum Br...

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural ...

Prosaurolophus maximus, Ottawa Museum of Nature Prosaurolophus was a large-headed duckbill dinosaur. The most complete described specime...

Delgadocrinus oportovinum This exceptionally well-preserved crinoid, Delgadocrinus oportovinum , was found on October 11, 1905, by Nery ...

A Devonian bony fish mortality plate showing a lower shield of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famous for its rows of moai, towering figures of deified ancestors that were carved from volcanic tuff rock in...

Carcharodon chubutensis . Photo: Luis Lima Carcharocles chubutensis , which roughly translates to the "glorious shark of Chubut,&qu...

This sweet beauty with lovely colouring is a Hoploscaphites nebrascensis (Owen, 1852) macroconch. This is the female form of the ammonite...

Predatory dinosaurs were an important ecological component of terrestrial Mesozoic ecosystems. Though theropod dinosaurs carried this ro...

Oxford University Museum of Natural History was established in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the University of Oxfo...

Turtle ribs fuse together with some of their vertebrae so they have to pump air in and out of the lungs with their leg muscles instead? ...

A rare and very beautifully preserved Cretaceous Hadrosaur Tooth. This lovely specimen is from one of our beloved herbivorous "Duck-B...

A Devonian fish mortality plate showing all lower shields of Zenaspis podolica  (Lankester, 1869) and Stensiopelta pustulata (or Victo...

Hadrosaurus, also known as the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, were a very successful group of plant-eaters that thrived throughout wes...

Blue mussels live in intertidal areas and inlets attached to rocks and other hard substrates by strong, stretchy thread-like structures ca...

A lovely example of the ammonite, Cératites Nodosus , an extinct genus of nektonic marine carnivore from shell limestone superior deposits...

This lovely fellow with his distinctive colouring is an Atlantic Puffin or "Sea Parrot" from Skomer Island near Pembrokeshire in...

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

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...

Meet Fergusonites hendersonae , a Late Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonite from the Taseko Lakes area of British Columbia, Canadian Rocki...

Wee Eocene Snout Weevil / Photo: Jim Barkley A lovely fossil Snout Weevil, family Curculionidae, from the Green River Formation of Weste...

This little cutie is a Western European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaus , in the subfamily Erinaceinae (Fischer, 1814). They are native to we...

A stunning example of the Late Cretaceous fish, Gasteroclupea branisai , from Bolivia. This beauty is housed in the Natural History Museum...

These playful lovelies are beautiful examples of the Common Pheasant, Phasianus Cholchicus . We associate them with tweet shorn English ...

This lovely specimen, showing both the positive and negative of the fossil, is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicor...

Cuticular structure in a Late Maastrichtian crab, Costacopluma mexicana , from deposits near the town of from near Paredón, Ramos Arizpe i...

A recent post of the fossils found at McAbee in the Interior of British Columbia has me thinking of March Flies. March Flies are hardy, me...