FOSSIL HUNTRESS

The lovely large creamy tusk shell, Dentalium sp ., you see here is in the collections of John Fam, Vice-Chair, Vancouver Paleontological So...

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

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1898), Clallam Formation, WA Some water-worn samples of the fossil bivalve Vertipecten fucanus from Lower M...

Tetralophodon ("four-ridged tooth") is an extinct proboscidean genus belonging to the superfamily Elephantoidea.  Their fossils h...

If you live in North American, there is a high probability that you have seen or heard the bird song of the Blue jay,  Cyanocitta cristata ...

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

If you happen to be swimming in the warm, shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, you may encounter one of the most charming of all the...

Kwagu'ł into the Mist by Heidi Henderson Heidi Henderson is a Norwegian-Canadian Kwagu'ł Kwakw a k a 'wakw & proud citizen o...

Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...

Our dear penguins, seals, sea lions, walruses, whales, crocodiles and sea turtles were once entirely terrestrial. Yes, they lived mostly o...

Young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus The lovely fellow you see here is a young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus , with a wee dusting...

This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa. This lo...

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for whom...

This showy Christmas Cracker is a Dinoflagellate The showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate.  Bi...

These festive lovelies are jellyfish. Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to our deepest seas — and they are old. Th...