FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Cassowary, Casuariiformes Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you know your local birds. True, you may call them des Oiseaux, p...

This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis in 2018. The vertebrae you see are from ...

In 1987, Wesley Wehr, a paleobotanist (and dear friend) who specialized in the fossil plants of the Okanagan Highlands of British Columbia a...

Join us this afternoon to hear from Danna Staaf, the Cephalopodiatrist to hear her lecture, Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs. Cephalopods, ...

In 1788, this magnificent specimen of a Megatherium sloth was sent to the Royal Cabinet of Natural History from the Viceroyalty of Rio de l...

This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae. We know him from our gardens where we se...

Dan Bowen, Chair, VIPS, Trent River The rocks that make up the Trent River on Vancouver Island were laid down south of the equator as small,...

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

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

The Scythe Lizard Therizinosaurus The slow-moving but massive fellow you see here is Therizinosaurus . He belonged to a genus of sizable the...

This specimen of the arthropod Tuzoia sp . is from the Lower Cambrian Eager Formation of British Columbia.  Tuzoia is an extinct genus of la...

One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles. They cling to rocks deep in the sea and at ...

Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...

This specimen of a mature olenellid trilobite, Wanneria dunnae , is from the Lower Cambrian Eager Formation of British Columbia.  He is from...

This beautiful creamy sea biscuit is an echinoid nestled in a clay matrix. Echinoids are classified by the symmetry of the test, the number ...