FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Tanglefoot Mountain. Photo: Dan Bowden The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountain...

Tetralophodon During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals wal...

Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...

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

The chunky ammonite Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, bed II (iv), Folkstone Gault Clay, county of Kent, southeast England. This matrix yo...

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

Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...

Totem, Welcome & Mortuary Poles at Stanley Park If you visit Brockton Point in Stanley Park, there are many carved red cedar First Natio...

Chuckanut Drive is much younger than other parts of Washington. The fossils found there lived and died some 40-55 million years ago, very cl...

Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...