FOSSIL HUNTRESS

An adorable example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas back in the...

A cool morning breeze keeps the mosquitoes down as we pack our kayaks and gear for today’s paddling journey.  It is day four of our holiday...

Crocus Flowers: Saffron & Dye The earliest flowering plants show up in the fossil record 130 million years ago. These beauties became th...

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

Hornby is a delightful island off the east coast of Vancouver Island in Georgia Strait. The geology we find here is part of the southern Com...

Yesterday, on the Fossil Huntress Podcast, we wrestled with the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. It is an ex...

The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada.  This beauty is the rem...

A bright, beautiful young mind asked the question, "does Earth's mass decrease when we burn fossil fuels? And if it does, is it mea...

Puntledge Elasmosaur found by Mike Trask This lengthy beauty is an elasmosaur, a large marine reptile now housed in the Courtena...

Stunning preservation on this lovely microconch of the ammonite, Indosphinctes (Elatmites) aff. submutatus (Nikitin, 1881), from Jurassic...

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

After much thinking and dreaming — the Fossil Huntress Podcast is now live. This is pure geeky goodness from the Fossil Huntress in personal...

A lovely example of Trilacinoceras norvegicum (Sweet, 1958), a nektonic carnivorous cephalopod from Ordovician outcrops on Helgö Island, ...

Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles. They cling to r...

This lovely fellow perched in the mist is a Puffin. They hunt and munch on small fish, eels, herring, hake and capelin.  Their diet varies t...

Manatee and calf Female manatees usually have one calf every two to five years. The calf swims alongside his Mamma for two years or more, mu...