FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Diplomoceras sp . This gorgeous cream and brown big beast of a heteromorph, Diplomoceras (Diplomoceras) sp. , (Hyatt, 1900) was found within...

Tetralophodon During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals wal...

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 ...

Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...

Dall's Porpoise These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise.  In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl ...

An artfully enhanced example of Homarus hakelensis , an extinct genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephrophidae. Homarus is a g...

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 ...

Niobe schmidti (Balashova, 1976) This gorgeous trilobite is an exceptionally well-preserved Niobe schmidti  (Balashova, 1976) from middle Or...

A wee block with Eocene marine gastropods from the Coal Creek, Cowlitz Formation just south of Porter near Longview, WA.  This beautiful sit...

Lower Jurassic Belemnites, Photo: Georg Laki Belemnitida is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that swam our ancient seas from the L...

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

This is a theropod track left by an Allosaurus walking through a muddy bank that turned to stone. These big beasties were large carnosaurian...

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

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...