FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Pseudothurmannia is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratitidae of the am...

This beautiful fossil brittle star with his slender whip-like arms is from Jurassic outcrops of Portugal and hails from the collection o...

Some lovely examples of Douvilleiceras mammillatum ( Schlotheim, 1813), ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous (Middle-Lower Albian) Douvillice...

A lovely rolled trilobite, Calymene blumenbachii ,  from outcrops in the UK. This wee beauty is in the collections of the deeply awesome The...

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...

An Eocene Cryptodiran Fossil Turtle, Baena arenosa , from fine-grained lime mud outcrops in the Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA. Thi...

Reconstruction of Prosaurolophus maximus When this good looking fellow was originally described by Brown, Prosaurolophus maximus was kno...

Lower Jurassic Belemnites, Photo: Georg Laki Belemnitida is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that swam our ancient seas from the L...

Glyptodonts are the early ancestors of our modern armadillos that roamed North and South America during the Pleistocene.  Armadillos, both...

Look at this soulful fellow. He is a muskox who spends his days slowly meandering through these gorgeous fields eating his fill of nutritiou...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...

Sunsets — pure visual poetry: peaceful, meditative, mesmerizing. What is sunlight, actually? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so muc...

This busy slate grey dinosaur trackway from the Iberian Peninsula looks more like a dance floor than the thoroughfare it is.  The numerous t...

If fossil fuels are made from fossils, are oil, gas and coal made from dead dinosaurs? Well, no, but they are made from fossils. We do n...

Deep inside the largest and deepest gold mine in North America scientists are looking for dark matter particles and neutrinos instead of...

If you are wondering if you have Fossil Bone, you’ll want to look for the telltale texture on the surface.  Fossil bone is also heavier than...

This sweet macroconch with her lovely oil-in-water colouring is a Hoploscaphites nebrascensis (Owen, 1852). This is the female form of the ...

This concretion contains a partially exposed Rhacolepis Buccalis , an extinct genus of ray-finned fossil fish in carbonate concretion from...

You will be delighted to know that it is time for the next BCPA Symposium, June 9th - 12th, 2023.  This is the 14th BC Palaeontological Symp...

The beautiful walled city of Volterra, an ancient Etruscan town some 45 miles southwest of Florence, is famous for its well-preserve...

Exposures of the Upper Triassic (Early Norian, Kerri zone), Luning formation, West Union Canyon, just outside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park,...