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Saturday, 17 December 2022

EIFELIAN PARALEJURUS

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This bronzed beauty is the Middle Devonian, Eifelian (~395 mya) trilobite, Paralejurus rehamnanus (Alberti, 1970) from outcrops near Issoum...
Friday, 16 December 2022

HOLLARDOPS: LE MAÎTRE

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Hollardops sp.  Devonian Trilobite Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle D...
Thursday, 15 December 2022

LOWER LIAS LYTOCERAS

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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...
Wednesday, 14 December 2022

BEARS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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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)...
Tuesday, 13 December 2022

BUMBLEBEES: HAMDZAT'SI

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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...
Friday, 9 December 2022

NOOTKA FOSSILS AND FIRST NATIONS HISTORY

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Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John Fam The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Her...
Thursday, 8 December 2022

CASTLE PEAK: JET RANGER

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If you look closely, you can see a wee jet ranger helicopter hovering over a very chilly Castle Peak in the southern Chilcotin Range, Britis...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

TEYLER, LINNAEUS AND A SWEET HELIANTHASTER

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Exceptional fossil starfish Helianthaster preserved in minute detail in pyrite from the Devonian of Bundenbach, Germany. Helianthaster rhena...
Tuesday, 6 December 2022

OYSTER: T'LOX'TLOX

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One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...
Monday, 5 December 2022

BRITISH COLUMBIA'S GIANT HIDDEN AMMONITE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Sunday, 4 December 2022

LATE HETTANGIAN FAUNA FROM TASAKO LAKES

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The late Hettangian ammonite fauna from Taseko Lakes is diverse and relatively well‐preserved. Over three field seasons from 2001-2003, thir...
Friday, 2 December 2022

FOSSIL WHALE BONE OF WASHINGTON STATE

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Oligocene Fossil Whale Vertebrae, Olympic Peninsula These lovely water-worn specimens are difficult to ID to species with certainty but ...

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH RIZWAAN ABBAS

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Rizwaan Abbas, Palaeoanthropologist Meet Rizwaan Abbas—palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist working with the Semiahmoo First Nation.  He i...
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