FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Back in 2009, Jörg Maletz from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, did a paper looking at the Les Méchins region i...

Graptolites (Graptolita) are a group of colonial animals known primarily from Ordovician deposits. The biological affinities of the grapto...

A beautiful example of two water-worn specimens of the gastropod Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791) captured after a storm captured b...

This beautiful ammonite is Neocomites (Teschenites) flucticulus  (Thieuloy, 1977) sharing a large boulder with a delicate, straight-shelle...

This concretion contains a partially exposed Rhacolepis Buccalis , an extinct genus of ray-finned fossil fish in carbonate concretion from...

A mother humpback and her young charge. Mothers show a tremendous amount of affection and love to their young, often swimming so close tog...

Fossil Whale Bone Oligocene Fossil Whale vertebrae from Majestic Beach, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. These lovely water-w...

The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil mould of a small...

Some water-worn samples of the fossil bivalve Vertipecten fucanus from Lower Miocene deposits in the Clallam Formation. These were colle...

This lovely large fossil bivalve is Panopea abrupta (Conrad) an extinct species of marine mollusc in the family Hiatellidae, subclass Hete...

One of the most beautiful in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympic Peninsula from Port Angeles to Neah Bay. This stretch of coastline is ...

Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of the continent on the move westward, eventually bumping up against...

Brewericeras hulenense (Anderson 1938) a fast-moving, nektonic (no idle floating here!) carnivorous ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous (Al...

Charmouth Nodule; Photo and prep: Lizzie Hingley The talented Lizzie Hingley of Stonebarrow Fossils found this beautiful chock-a-block n...

This stunning specimen with her regal ridges — and small anomaly — is an Apoderoceras ammonite. Apoderoceras are an extinct genus of ceph...

Lovely defined sutures on this rather involute, high-whorled ammonite from the middle part of the Lower Albian in the Mahajanga Province, ...

This lovely specimen is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis , from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukrai...

Ammonitic Suture Detail Ammonites were predatory, squidlike creatures that lived inside coil-shaped shells. Like other cephalopo...

Graptolites — Graptolita — are colonial animals. The biological affinities of the graptolites have always been debatable. Originally regar...

Arietidæ plate using heliogravure copper platting The lovely plate is from the Genesis of the Arietidæ , shared as part of Contribution...

Much of Egypt's history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as old, with remarkable human history, but the land that formed this ...

Florissantia sp. , from the Allenby Formation, Princeton, BC Plant fossils are found coast-to-coast in Canada, from 45-million-year-old ...