FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Glaciers, mountains, active volcanoes — Iceland has it all.  Sitting at the junction of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans is the ruggedly...

Ammonites were prolific breeders that evolved rapidly. If you could cast a fishing line into our ancient seas, it is likely that you would h...

The Mighty Gorgons — Apex Predators of the Permian.  Back in the Paleozoic, some 540 million years ago, life in the seas was teaming with li...

Robin Hoods Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located in the North York Moors National Park, 5 miles (8 km) south of Whitby and 15...

Trapper Cabin on Isaac Lake / Bowron Provincial Park The Bowron Canoe Circuit is a 149,207 hectare geologic wonderland, where a fortui...

The lovely large specimen (macroconch) of Apoderoceras pictured here is likely a female. Her larger body perfected for egg production. ...

Dactylioceras ammonite, Photo: Harry Tabiner A lovely Dactylioceras ammonite from the Lower Jurassic Upper Lias Holderness of the Yor...

Sarcosuchus imperator An impressive Super Croc tooth and scute from Sarcosuchus imperator , an extinct genus of giant crocodile-like rep...

This mighty beast is Sarcosuchus. He is an extinct genus of crocodyliform, so not quite a crocodile as we know them but the distant relativ...

Our early Earth was a molten world When the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, it was an inhospitable place.  Even with a Sun some 25 per c...

Red Lipped Batfish,  Ogcocephalus darwini This sexy monkey with her luscious red pucker is a Red Lipped Batfish, Ogcocephalus darwini . ...

A beautiful example of Aulacostephanus undorae (Pavlow, 1886), a Late Jurassic, Upper Kimmeridgian, upper zone Eudoxus ammonite from an ol...

When I was little, maybe 5 or 6 years old, I struck gold! Well, it wasn't real gold, but I was most convinced.  Someone had dumped a ta...

Birds, Snakes & Mammals, London Clay Birds, mammals, snakes and crocodiles — these do not immediately spring to mind when you think of m...

Most people consider the Early Eocene, Ypresian fossils of the Isle of Sheppey off the northern coast of  Kent, UK to be the best site for c...

Ammonoid and gastropod coquina, Wetterstein Limestone A very busy white to light cream ammonoid and gastropod coquina of Upper Triassic (Car...

Turtle shells are different from the body armour or armoured shells we see adorning dinosaurs like the ankylosaurs.  Ankylosaurs were blesse...

One of the most delightful palaeontologists to grace our Earth was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 February 2020).  We often thin...

Spirit Bears or Kermode bears, Ursus americanus kermodei , are a subspecies of the North American black bear. They get their colouring from ...

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

This lovely specimen, showing the articulated tail section of the fish is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis,...

If palaeontologists had a wish list, it would likely include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each othe...

The 17th of May is National Day in Norway. It is a time of celebrations, flags, parades, dressing up and eating ice cream.  Back in 1814, th...