FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Dactylioceras ammonite, Photo: Harry Tabiner A lovely Dactylioceras ammonite from the Lower Jurassic Upper Lias Holderness of the Yor...

Located three hours east of Vancouver, most folks head to Harrison Lake to enjoy its crisp waters, soak in the hot springs, camp or four-whe...

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

A sweet little water bug from the suborder Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810). He looks more like a cartoon character that any other specimen I...

This disarticulated fellow is Mammutus primigenius  a Woolly Mammoth from the Pleistocene of Siberia, Russia.  He's now housed in the Mu...

Puffins are any of three small species of alcids or auks in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding se...

An exquisite specimen of the delicately ridged ammonite, Porpoceras verticosum , from Middle Toarcian outcrops adjacent the Rhône in southea...

Mesmerizing, delicate and seemingly impossible — this lovely luminescent denizen of the sea has been living in our oceans for more than half...

A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon, Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwai...

Cannibalistic Comb Jellies This festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies. Comb jellies are n...

This remarkable fellow is Dimorphodon  — a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from the Early Jurassic. He is another favourite of mine for his...

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

This glorious chocolate block contains the creamy grey ammonite Kepplerites gowerianus (Sowerby 1827) with a few invertebrate friends, incl...

This lovely little biscuit is a Holectypus sea urchin from 120 million-year-old deposits from the Lagniro Formation of Madagascar. The sp...

A lovely specimen of fossilized coral. Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically li...

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

Scleractinian Fossil Coral, Florida The delicate wintery beauty you see here is a Scleractinian coral we find first in the fossil record in ...

If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you ...

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