FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park Around half past five, as the first flush of dawn appears, our group was up and ready to visit a...

This little cutie is a hermit crab and he is wearing a temporary home borrowed from one of our mollusc friends.  His body is a soft, squishy...

A new species of trilobite from the upper Cambrian McKay Group was introduced in March of 2020: Aciculolenus askewi .  The species is named ...

The partial specimen you see here is an Olenellus trilobite from the Eager Formation near Cranbrook, British Columbia. It was exciting to c...

Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...

This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near Clallam Bay, Olympic Peninsula, northwestern Washing...

A cool morning breeze keeps the mosquitoes down as we pack our kayaks and gear for today’s paddling journey.  It is day four of our holiday...

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

This lovely specimen is Zeacrinites magnoliaeformis , an Upper Mississippian-Chesterian crinoid found by Keith Metts in the Glen Dean Form...

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. A goose is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.  They ca...

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

These lovelies are lemurs. They are very social and like to live in groups of half a dozen to up to 30 individuals. A female leads the grou...

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