FOSSIL HUNTRESS

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. A goose is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.  They ca...

Paleontology — A lovely faded lithograph from A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature By Oliver Gold Smith. I love the old lithographs. T...

The festive lassie you see here is an Anglerfish. They always look to be celebrating a birthday of some kind, albeit solo. This party is h...

Light in the oceans? It is chemistry, my friends.  In the inky blackness of the deep sea, more than 90% of the animals are luminescent. It i...

Mesmerizing, delicate and seemingly impossible — this lovely luminescent denizen of the sea has been living in our oceans for more than half...

Exceptional fossil starfish Helianthaster preserved in minute detail in pyrite from the Devonian of Bundenbach, Germany. Helianthaster rhena...

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

Eusthenopteron is a genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) with a close relationship to our dear tetrapods. The fellow you ...

Bothriolepis canadensis A stunning replica of Bothriolepis canadensis from Upper Devonian (Frasnian), Escuminac formation, Parc de Miguasha,...

70-Million-Year-Old Toothed Enantiornithes Bird Beak Teeth and jaws, beaks and claws — all species adapt and change over time based on survi...

The old adage, you are what you eat, might be best amended to you are what you can digest.  For all the mammals, you and I included, we need...

If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you ...

This little chocolate nugget with his impressive claws is an Echidna. They are curious egg-laying mammals from Australia and Papua New Guine...

Apatosaurus , one of the largest animals to ever live Apatosaurus was one of the largest animals to ever live on our planet. Picture this f...

Cadochamoussetia subpatruus (Nikitin 1885) I have a thing for chunky ammonites and find their inflated shapes very pleasing.  This lovely c...

From Russia with love. This lovely inflated ammonite is the female macroconch,  Cadochamoussetia tschernyschewi (Sokolov, 1912) from the Ju...

Left, right, one, two... Theropod Tracks Left, right, one, two... the wonderfully preserved theropod trackway you see here was found by eagl...

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,...