FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Hiking the hills of Nevada looking for David Taylor's faunal succession based on ammonoids established for the Late Hettangian to Early ...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...

Grambergia sp . Middle Triassic Ammonoid of  BC, Canada In the early 1980s, Tim Tozer, Geological Survey of Canada was looking at th...

From Russia with love. This lovely inflated ammonite is the female macroconch,  Cadochamoussetia tschernyschewi (Sokolov, 1912) from the Ju...

We sometimes find fossils preserved by pyrite. They are prized as much for their pleasing gold colouring as they are for their scientific va...

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...

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

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 ...

This toothy specimen is an Oncorhynchus nerka , a Pleistocene Sockeye Salmon from outcrops along the South Fork Skokomish River, Olympic P...

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...