FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...

On the Fossil Huntress Podcast, we wrestled with the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. It is an excellent que...

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

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...

Look at how this protective mamma bear holds her cub in her arms to give him a bit of a wash.  Her gentle maternal care is truly touching. ...

Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...

Located three hours east of Vancouver, most folks head to Harrison Lake to enjoy its crisp waters, soak in the hot springs, camp or four-whe...

We live in a diverse province edged by mountains, ocean, forests and streams. While our lens is often on the rugged beauty all around us, be...

This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was...

A reconstruction of BC's Early Eocene by Julius Csotonyi British Columbia is blessed to have many fossil deposits that date back to the ...

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...

Ancient crocodile claw marks uncovered  During the Cretaceous, giant crocodiles, nine to 12 metres in length, basked in the sun and swam in ...

Orygmaspis  (Parabolinoides)  spinula This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) spinula  (Westrop, 1986) an Upper Cambrian trilob...

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

Totem, Welcome & Mortuary Poles at Stanley Park If you visit Brockton Point in Stanley Park, there are many carved red cedar First Natio...