FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This lovely big fella is a Moose. He is taller than most everyone you know and weighs more than your car. You may encounter them lumbering s...

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...

If you live in the northern hemisphere, you stand a very good chance of seeing the aurora borealis this evening. We got a spectacular showin...

Canada's early history, like all nations, is written in her rock. The ground we walk upon today on Turtle Island includes some of the ol...

Dappled light caresses this mature Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria , mushroom caught unaware beneath a bit of camouflaging foliage.  These icon...

Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana (Sowerby, 1826) A beautiful example of the ammonite, Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana  (Sowerby, 1826), ...

Dalmanites is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. These extinct arthropods lived from the Late Ordovician to Middle Devonian.  Tril...

The first episode of the Fossil Huntress Podcast was October 12, 2020. It started with a bang of 47 episodes in the first season.  Since the...

Hollardops sp.  Devonian Trilobite Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle D...

Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific nam...

Pachydiscus suchiaensis  ID: 18-08-CP-002 Hornby is a glorious place to collect. It is family and dog friendly. You need to dress for beach ...

Cadoceras ( Paracadoceras ) tonniense Most folk headed to Harrison Lake are venturing the three hours east of Vancouver to enjoy the hot sp...

This glorious rich chocolate showboat is the trilobite Cheirurus ingricus from Middle Ordovician limestone deposits in the Wolchow River Re...

Mammals can walk, hop, swim and fly; a few, like marsupial sugar gliders, can even glide.  With 52 species scattered across the Northern hem...