FOSSIL HUNTRESS

These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Bottlenose dolphins. They are marine mammals who live in our world's oceans an...

Young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus The lovely fellow you see here is a young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus , with a wee dusting...

We can trace the lineage of barnacles back to the Middle Cambrian. That's half a billion years of data to sift through. But if you div...

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

Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identica...

If you take a peek at this well-preserved fossilized crab, you can see the back section of his carapace composed of highly mineralized chi...

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the Phyllum Arthopoda. They inhabit all the world's oceans, many of our freshwater lakes and streams,...

If you happen to be swimming in the warm, shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, you may encounter one of the most charming of all the...

South American Tapir,  Tapirus terrestris This little sweetie with his brown fur stripped and dotted with bits of white is a South Ameri...

Early Eocene Tapir from Driftwood Canyon Driftwood Canyon in British Columbia is known for its beautiful early Eocene plants. It's n...

Jen Becker, British Columbia Paleontological Alliance Field Trip In the summer of 2005, I joined Jen Becker, and fellow delegates from t...

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

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

If fossil fuels are made from fossils, are oil, gas and coal made from dead dinosaurs? Well, no, but they are made from fossils. We do n...

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

Carcharocles chubutensis , which roughly translates to the "glorious shark of Chubut," from the ancient Greek is an extinct spec...

The Earth has a magnetic field with north and south poles. The magnetic field of the Earth is surrounded by the magnetosphere that keeps m...

Solar flares, sunlight, what are they actually? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so much more than that. Sunlight is both light and en...

Deep inside the largest and deepest gold mine in North America scientists are looking for dark matter particles and neutrinos instead of...

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

This lovely creamy beauty is Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfo...

A stunning example of the heteromorph ammonite, Hyphantoceras orientale macroconch. This beauty corresponds to 'Morphotype C' fro...

Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...

Heteromorph Ammonites, Sowerby 1837 Ammonite shells have been collected by people for millennia. These ammonites are known from the Late...

This lovely with her colourful body is an octopus. Like ninety-seven percent of the world's animals, she lacks a backbone. To support th...

Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana  (Sowerby, 1826) A beautiful example of the ammonite, Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana (Sowerby, 1826),...