FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Abalone is the common name for a group of large marine snails — gastropod molluscs in the genus Haliotis , family Haliotidae. Haliotis  once...

The skulls of many dinosaurs had bumps, crests or horns for display, scaring rivals and impressing potential mates. Instead of the sharp nos...

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...

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

This beautiful slab of well-preserved Triassic, Carnian, upper Tuvalian ammonoids hails limestone outcrops near the salt-mining town of Ha...

The irresistable tetrapod Tiktaalik In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to m...

Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...

Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...

Cretaceous Plant Material / Three Brothers Formation Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, forests, lowlands, inlets and rivers ...

Bald Eagle / Kwikw /  Haliaeetus leucocephalus A mighty Bald Eagle sitting with wings spread looks to be controlling the weather with his wi...

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

Dall's Porpoise These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise.  In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl ...

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