FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This little cutie is a hermit crab and he is wearing a temporary home borrowed from one of our mollusc friends.  His body is a soft, squishy...

Weyla (Nielsen, 1963) New York Canyon, Nevada A lovely example of the large bivalve, Weyla (Nielsen, 1963), from the earliest known Jura...

The entrance to the Pliensbachian-Toarcian localities at Joker Peak and Mina Peak Members of the Sunrise Formation, Nevada, USA. The Jurassi...

A tasty ichthyosaur block with three distinct vertebrae and some ribs just peeking out. You can see the edges of the ribs nicely outlined ag...

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

Euhoplites Ammonite, Collection of José Juárez Ruiz A beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK.  Euhoplites is an extinct amm...

One of the most beautiful areas of Vancouver Island is the town of Port Hardy on the north end of the island.  Just outside Port Hardy furth...

A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon, Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwai...

Douvelliceras spiniferum , Cretaceous Haida Formation The islands of Haida Gwaii lay at the western edge of the continental shelf due west o...

Looking down at the pebbly sand, you see just the wee top of this lovely fossil brachiopod poking out. Glee, delight and wonder follow as yo...

Florissantia from Quilchena Highly recommend the tasty paleo goodies shared on the Fossil Bonanza website and podcast. Both sites are dedic...

High up in the Canadian Rockies in an area known as Burgess Pass is one of the most unlikely, perfect and improbable fossil sites on Earth. ...

There is delightful suturing on this lovely ammonite, Holcophylloceras mediterraneum , (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) deposi...

Secretary Bird, Sagittarius serpentarius Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Driftwood Canyon...

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...