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...

Reconstruction of Prosaurolophus maximus When this good looking fellow was originally described by Brown, Prosaurolophus maximus was kno...

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

Tanglefoot Mountain. Photo: Dan Bowden The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountain...

One of the little animals I see daily in Kitsilano, Vancouver, are the very busy, highly comic rodents we know as squirrels.  They spend the...

About 250 million years ago, our once silent world became a cacophony of diverse animal sounds.  One of the most lyrical of those voices to ...

A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...

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...

Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...

Orthocone Nautiloid Fossil An orthocone is an unusually long, straight shell of a nautiloid cephalopod. You have likely seen them from Ontar...

This lovely with her colourful body is an octopus. Like ninety-seven percent of the world's animals, she lacks a backbone.  To support t...

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

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 ...

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...

Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park Around half past five, as the first flush of dawn appears, our group was up and ready to visit a...

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

In the Field with Vancouverite Geoscientist Andy Randell — We were super excited to spend a day with the awesome possum that is Andy Randell...