FOSSIL HUNTRESS

MUSINGS MEANT TO CAPTIVATE, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE

Monday, 12 September 2022

HONOURING FAMILY AND HERITAGE

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Honouring family & heritage. K'omoks & Pentlatch Chief Kerry Frank hosted a Memorial Potlatch Gix̱ǥwał and Totem Pole Raising fo...
Sunday, 11 September 2022

TRACKING THEROPODS IN PERU

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Left, right, one, two... Theropod Tracks Left, right, one, two... the wonderfully preserved theropod trackway you see here was found by eagl...
Saturday, 10 September 2022

BC'S FOSSIL BOUNTY ON TELUS OPTIK TV

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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...
Friday, 9 September 2022

OCTOPUS: TAK'WA

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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...
Thursday, 8 September 2022

AMMONITE TIME KEEPERS: INDEX FOSSILS

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Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

PLAYFUL PORPOISE: K'ULUT'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 ...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

INUKTITUT: STEWARDS OF OUR NORTHERN WORLD

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Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...
Monday, 5 September 2022

BARNACLES: KWIT'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, 4 September 2022

FINDING SMILODON AMONGST THE BONES

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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...
Saturday, 3 September 2022

FOSSIL COLLECTING AT THE MYSTERIOUS CREEK FORMATION

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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...
Friday, 2 September 2022

FOSSIL FLORA AND FAUNA OF MADAGASCAR

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Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) A stunning example of the internal suturing with calcite infill in this sliced  Aioloceras besa...
Thursday, 1 September 2022

FERNIE GIANT: A MASSIVE AMMONITE HIDDEN IN THE TREES

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Wednesday, 31 August 2022

A NEW LEPTOCERATOPSID: UNESCOCERATOPS KOPPELHUSAE

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Unescoceratops koppelhusae , Julius Csotonyi A very sweet small leptoceratopsid dinosaur, Unescoceratops koppelhusae — a new species in th...
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

SPINOSAURUS AEGYPTIACUS

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Spinosaurus the Spine Lizard of the Cretaceous This beautiful big boy painted in yellow, green and blue is Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.  Spinos...
Monday, 29 August 2022

BEARS OF NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA

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A Grizzly Bear takes a rest on a fallen log in Alaska. While stumbling upon them may cause us surprise, they have heard us  (and smelled us)...
Sunday, 28 August 2022

SPLIT SAIL SPINOSAURID

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Back in the Cretaceous in what is now the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, a group of mighty spinosaur with an unusual split sail were pl...
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