FOSSIL HUNTRESS

The South Chilcotin Mountains Park has been home, hunting ground and trade route to local First Nations for thousands of years. The area fal...

Cory Brimblecombe, Tyaughton Fossil Beds For the longest time, a handful of British Columbia Paleontological Alliance members had heard stor...

Some lovely examples of Douvilleiceras mammillatum (Schlotheim, 1813), ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous (Middle-Lower Albian) Douvillice...

Stromatolites are a major constituent of the fossil record of the first forms of life on earth. They peaked about 1.25 billion years ago and...

Look at this adorable one! It is a wee baby fossil octopus. This specimen is a particularly exquisite example of Keuppia levante , an extinc...

Stromatolites are layered mounds, columns, and sheet-like sedimentary rocks that were originally formed by the growth of layer upon layer of...

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

A stunning replica of Bothriolepis canadensis from Upper Devonian (Frasnian), Escuminac formation, Parc de Miguasha, Baie des Chaleurs, Gas...

This lovely specimen is Zeacrinites magnoliaeformis , an Upper Mississippian-Chesterian crinoid found by Keith Metts in the Glen Dean Format...

In 1993, John Fam and his father were collecting from outcrops exposed at the Motorcross track near Brannan Lake in Nanaimo, British Columbi...

This dapper fellow is a pine needle and horsetail connoisseur. He's a hadrosaurus — also known as "duck-billed" dinosaurs. The...

Aturia angustata , Lower Miocene, WA This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near Clallam Bay, O...

Devonian Coral, Kootenay Rockies, BC This fellow is a coral from a Devonian reef site near the Bull River in the Kootenay Rockies.  Corals a...

There is a small roadcut exposure of the Eager Formation on the Ktunaxa Nation lands. The Lower Cambrian Eager Formation outcrops at a few l...

This adorable wee baby with his teeny aquatic mittens on is a eurypterid from exposures in New York, USA. This fellow is just under a centim...

This lovely is Maotunia sp . from the Drumian Changhia Formation of China. You can see the 3D phosphatized gut glands still stuck to the und...

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...

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

This lovely fossil crab is Longusorbis cuniculosus from the Upper Cretaceous ) Late Campanian, Northumberland Formation near Campbell River...

This gorgeous Lower Pliensbachian macroconch of the ammonite Androgynoceras lataecosta  was found as a nodule from the Green Ammonite beds, ...

This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) spinula  (Westrop, 1986) an Upper Cambrian trilobite from the McKay Group near Tanglefo...

Triassic Fossil Fish, Albertonia sp.   This beauty with the graceful sail-like fins is the Early Triassic ganoid fish, Albertonia sp ., an e...

This large, showy bivalved arthropod is a  Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in...