FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....

Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.  The crosstie spaci...

Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...

Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...

The door to the Long House in Tsaxis, Fort Rupert. This was the Opening Ceremony for the Long House & Hunt Family Potlatch in 1995 hoste...

The partial specimen you see here is an Olenellus trilobite from the Eager Formation near Cranbrook, British Columbia. It was exciting to c...

This photograph was taken in 1894 of Franz Boas with the Hunt family. Back row, left to right: Sam Hunt, George Hunt, Mary Ebbets Hunt (Anis...

Geeky Palaeo Goodness from the Fossil Huntress — Palaeo Sommelièr — musings in natural history meant to captivate, educate & inspire! Li...

Carnotaurus sastrei , a genus of large theropod dinosaurs that roamed the southern tip of Argentina, South America during the Late Cretaceou...

The glorious black-spotted lemon yellow lovely you see here is a seahorse. They are one of the fairytale creatures that I was pleased to see...

Cannibalistic Comb Jellies This festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies. Comb jellies are n...

Scleractinian Fossil Coral, Florida The delicate wintery beauty you see here is a Scleractinian coral we find first in the fossil record in ...

This lovely little biscuit is a Holectypus sea urchin from 120 million-year-old deposits from the Lagniro Formation of Madagascar. The sp...

These lovelies are lemurs. They are very social and like to live in groups of half a dozen to up to 30 individuals. A female leads the grou...