FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) Beauty is a stimulant that is administered through the eyes. And just look at this beauty. This gor...

This otherwordly fellow, straight out of a novel, is Glaucus atlanticus — the Blue Dragon Sea Slug. And what an amazing wee little dragon ...

This adorable aquatic vacuum is a dugong. I had always grouped the dugongs and manatees together. There are slight differences between these...

Manatees do not live year-round in Texas, but these gentle sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a summer vacation and r...

European Green Shore Crab / Carcinus maenas The adaptable European Green Shore Crab, Carcinus maenas , lives in a wide range of environm...

A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the subord...

This glorious and slightly terrifying skull is from a fossil cave bear,  Ursus uralensis , from Pleistocene deposits in Russia. Both the cav...

Look at this soulful fellow. He is a muskox who spends his days slowly meandering through these gorgeous fields eating his fill of nutritiou...

Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...

One of the most delightful creatures to ever grace this planet is the dugong — a species of sea cow found throughout the warm latitudes of t...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...

Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...

Pseudothurmannia is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratitidae of the am...

These colourful beauties are sea anemones. They are familiar inhabitants of rocky shores and coral reefs around the world — with some of the...

This little cutie is an Antarctic fur seal pup. He and his Mamma belong to the species Arctocephalus gazella —  pinnipeds that live in dense...

Dall's Porpoise These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise.  In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl ...

We can trace the lineage of barnacles back to the Middle Cambrian. That is half a billion years of data to sift through.  If you divide that...

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for whom...

Previously Calycoceras Tarrantense , this ammonite is now called Conlinoceras tarrantense after J.P. Conlin, a famous early 20th-century f...

This big beastie is Voay robustus . You likely met him first as Crocodylus‭ (‬ C.‭ ‬robustus ‭) from his original naming by Grandidier and ...