FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Calymene blumenbachii , Theresa Paul Spink Dunn A lovely example of the trilobite  Calymene blumenbachii  from outcrops in the UK. This wee ...

This fellow is the scorpion mud lobster, Thalassina anomala (Herbst, 1804), a species of decapod crustacean in the family Thalassinidae. He...

An artfully enhanced example of Homarus hakelensis , an extinct genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephrophidae. Homarus is a g...

Lovely defined sutures on this rather involute, high-whorled ammonite from the middle part of the Lower Albian in the Mahajanga Province, no...

The main direct effect of sulfates on the climate involves the scattering of light, effectively increasing the Earth's albedo. The term ...

Ammonite Preserved in Pyrite. Fossil Huntress We sometimes find fossils preserved by pyrite. They are prized as much for their pleasing gold...

Ammolite is an opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It is made of th...

Ancient life can be preserved as fossils in a number of ways. Replacement is one of the ways both shellfish and wood can be preserved as fos...

Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referr...

This beautiful dinosaur track is from Kalasin Dinosaur Park in northeastern Thailand.  Thailand boasts some of the finest Mesozoic trackways...

Exposures of the Upper Triassic (Early Norian, Kerri zone), Luning formation, West Union Canyon, just outside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park,...

Holotype Specimen of P. walkeri , Royal Ontario Museum Closer to home, we can find species of  Parasaurolophus walkeri  in the Dinosaur Par...

The Bluehead Wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum , live in coral reefs of the Atlantic Ocean. They range from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Me...

Flounders are a group of flatfish species. They are demersal fish, found at the bottom of oceans around the world. A few of their brethren c...

A very beautiful Lower Campanian block from Haroto, Hokkaido, Japan. This specimen contains an ancient undersea world at a glance. The beaut...

Back in the 1880s, a large fragmentary skull of an ancient toothed dolphin was described that would later be known as Ankylorhiza tiedemani ...

These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Bottlenose dolphins. They are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the...

A lovely beast of an ammonite, Cératites nodosus , from the collections of the deeply awesome Ange Mirabet. This species is an extinct genus...

This Jurassic ammonite is from an all but inaccessible site in Sayward, Bonanza Group, Vancouver Island. He's a Coroniceras with a trul...

"Wash that for you, sir?" If you were a fish living in the warm turquoise waters off the coast of Bonaire in the southern Caribbea...

A delightful Heteropteran collected this past year by Jim Barkley from Eocene exposures of the Green River Formation of Western Colorado. Th...

This stunning block with the black matrix holds two lovely ammonoids found near the town of Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl region of Russia just n...

The Heteromorph, Jaubertites ( Audouliceras ) renauxianum A stunningly beautiful example of the heteromorph ammonite Jaubertites ( Au...

This Hettangian ammonite, Alsatites proaries , is a lovely example of the cephalopods cruising our ancient oceans at that time. Alsatites is...

From years of field collecting, the drawers of the Geological Survey in Canada are filled to the brim. John Fam, Vice-Chair of the Vancouver...

Grambergia sp . Early Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid In the early 1980s, Tim Tozer, Geological Survey of Canada was looking at the sprea...