FOSSIL HUNTRESS
MUSINGS MEANT TO CAPTIVATE, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE
Tuesday 17 May 2022
QUINTUS SERTORIUS AND THE MYTH OF ANTAEUS
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Tetralophodon During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals wal...
Monday 16 May 2022
BARNACLES: K'WIT'A'A
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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 ...
Sunday 15 May 2022
MAMMOTH OF WRANGEL ISLAND
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Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...
Saturday 14 May 2022
PORPOISE: KULUT'A
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Dall's Porpoise These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise. In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl ...
Friday 13 May 2022
ROCK LOBSTER: HOMARUS
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An artfully enhanced example of Homarus hakelensis , an extinct genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephrophidae. Homarus is a g...
Thursday 12 May 2022
NEVADA FOSSILS: CARNIAN-NORIAN BOUNDARY
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Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park High on the hillside up a long entry road sits the entrance to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in ...
Wednesday 11 May 2022
NIOBE SCHMIDTI OF NORWAY
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Niobe schmidti (Balashova, 1976) This gorgeous trilobite is an exceptionally well-preserved Niobe schmidti (Balashova, 1976) from middle Or...
Tuesday 10 May 2022
CAPILANO / KIA'PALANO: BEAUTIFUL RIVER
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Sunday 8 May 2022
GASTROPODS OF THE COWLITZ FORMATION
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A wee block with Eocene marine gastropods from the Coal Creek, Cowlitz Formation just south of Porter near Longview, WA. This beautiful sit...
Saturday 7 May 2022
BELEMNITES: INTERNAL CONE STRUCTURE
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Lower Jurassic Belemnites, Photo: Georg Laki Belemnitida is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that swam our ancient seas from the L...
Friday 6 May 2022
SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND FOSSILS: SOOKE
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Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....
Wednesday 4 May 2022
TRACKING DINOSAURS & CROCODILE BONES
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This is a theropod track left by an Allosaurus walking through a muddy bank that turned to stone. These big beasties were large carnosaurian...
Tuesday 3 May 2022
HEROES, VILLANS & TYRANTS: HORNBY ISLAND
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Villains, tyrants and heroes alike are immortalized in the scientific literature as researchers don each new species a unique scientific nam...
Monday 2 May 2022
DENDRERPETON: CANADA'S EXTINCT AMPHIBIANS
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Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...
Sunday 1 May 2022
FOSSILS OF CANADA'S EASTER COASTLINE
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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Saturday 30 April 2022
BUILDING VANCOUVER: DIVERSE BEDROCK
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Vancouver sits at the western edge of British Columbia. It is famous for its mix of mountain, rain forest, ocean shore and urban life. When ...
Friday 29 April 2022
CAPILANO RESERVOIR: SALMON, WATER & FOSSIL EXPOSURES
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Capilano Watershed & Reservoir Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, forests, lowlands, inlets and rivers all wrapped lovingly b...
Tuesday 26 April 2022
BITS OF HISTORY: SALMON CANNERIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
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This weathered red building perched atop rotting pilings and nestled within British Columbia's rugged wilderness is the Tallheo Cannery ...
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