FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Arbutus tree, Arbutus menziesii , reaching out to sea, Hornby Island Windswept, peaceful, stormy and abundant, Hornby is a mix of e...

An exquisite specimen of the delicately ridged ammonite, Porpoceras verticosum , from Middle Toarcian outcrops adjacent the Rhône in southea...

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

The Plaza de España is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa, in Seville, Spain. It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 19...

This partial specimen of Deinotherium giganteum hails from Middle-Upper Miocene, c. 15.97-5.33 Million Years outcrops near Cerecinos de Camp...

El Torcal de Antequera El Torcal de Antequera is a nature reserve in the Sierra del Torcal mountain range south of the city of Antequera, in...

A group of nuns stepping out in Córdoba, Spain. The nuns of the Convento de Santa Isabel make sweets and cookies from centuries-old recipes ...

This lovely burnt-orange ammonite is Neocomites (Teschenites) found on a fossil field trip to Hauterivian, Early Cretaceous deposits in the ...

Córdoba’s Mezquita Mosque-Cathedral Andalusia is a gorgeous region of hills, creamy-beige rock, rivers and farmland bordering Spain’s southe...

Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...

This toothy fellow is Torvosaurus tanneri and he hails from Late Jurassic outcrops in the Carnegie Quarry at Dinosaur National Monument, Mo...

Kourisodon Puntledgensis Mosasaurs were large, globally distributed marine predators who dominated our Late Cretaceous oceans.  Since ...

This toothy beauty is an elasmosaur, a large marine reptile who cruised our ancient oceans 80-million years ago.  We have one now housed in ...

An old friend connected via social media to ask how he can best support his seven-year-old daughter's love of palaeontology. That is a q...

The earliest flowering plants show up in the fossil record 130 million years ago. These beauties became the dominant type of forest plant by...

Metasequoia , Dawn Redwood, is a fast-growing, deciduous tree native to Lichuan county in Hubei province in central China. It is the sole li...

Flower encased in amber Plant fossils are found coast-to-coast in Canada, from 45-million-year-old mosses in British Columbia to fossil fore...