Thursday, 12 October 2023

FOSSIL FISHAPODS OF CANADA'S FAR NORTH

›
Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...
Sunday, 8 October 2023

FOSSILS OF TURTLE ISLAND'S EAST KOOTENAY REGION

›
Tanglefoot Mountain. Photo: Dan Bowden The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountain...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

QUINTUS SERTORIOUS AND THE MYTH OF THE GIANT OGRE

›
Tetralophodon During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals wal...
Thursday, 5 October 2023

FOSSILS AND FIRST NATIONS OF EASTERN CANADA

›
Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...
Sunday, 1 October 2023

FOSSIL BIRDS OF SOOKE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND'S SOUTHERN SHORES

›
Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....
Saturday, 30 September 2023

FOSSILS FROM THE GAULT

›
The chunky ammonite Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, bed II (iv), Folkstone Gault Clay, county of Kent, southeast England. This matrix yo...
Friday, 29 September 2023

FIRST DINOSAUR FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND

›
This dapper fellow is a pine needle and horsetail connoisseur. He's a hadrosaurus — a duck-billed dinosaur. They were a very successful...
Friday, 15 September 2023

METASEQUOIA: DAWN REDWOOD

›
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...
Tuesday, 12 September 2023

VANCOUVER'S HISTORIC STANLEY PARK

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