FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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Friday, 2 June 2023

LOVE LESSONS FROM THE ARCTIC

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Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...
Thursday, 1 June 2023

THE SLOW RACE OF TIME

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Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Wat...
Wednesday, 31 May 2023

VANCOUVER ISLAND'S FIRST DINOSAUR

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This dapper fellow is a pine needle and horsetail connoisseur. He's a hadrosaurus — a duck-billed dinosaur. They were a very successful...
Tuesday, 30 May 2023

CARCHARODON MEGALODON CHUBUTENSIS

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Carcharocles chubutensis , which roughly translates to the "glorious shark of Chubut," from the ancient Greek is an extinct spec...
Sunday, 28 May 2023

BLUE JAYS: KWASKWAS

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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 ...
Saturday, 27 May 2023

FOSSIL BIRDS FROM SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....
Thursday, 25 May 2023

SPLIT SAIL SPINOSAURID

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Back in the Cretaceous in what is now the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, a group of mighty spinosaur with an unusual split sail were pl...
Wednesday, 24 May 2023

NOOTKA FOSSILS AND FIRST NATIONS HISTORY

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Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John Fam The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Her...
Tuesday, 23 May 2023

JOGGINS FOSSIL CLIFFS

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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Monday, 22 May 2023

ZENASPIS PODOLICA HEAD SHIELD

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A Devonian bony fish mortality plate showing a lower shield of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia...
Sunday, 21 May 2023

OKANAGAN HIGHLAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES

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Fossils from the Okanagan Highlands, an area centred in the Interior of British Columbia, provide important clues to our ancient climate.  O...
Saturday, 20 May 2023

CAMBRIAN FOSSILS NEAR CRANBROOK, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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