FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Our dear penguins, seals, sea lions, walruses, whales, crocodiles and sea turtles were once entirely terrestrial. Yes, they lived mostly o...

Unescoceratops koppelhusae , Julius Csotonyi A very sweet small leptoceratopsid dinosaur, Unescoceratops koppelhusae — a new species in th...

Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...

GREAT BEAR NA̱N Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly ...

This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae. We know him from our gardens where we se...

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

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

These lovelies are lemurs. They are very social and like to live in groups of half a dozen to up to 30 individuals. A female leads the grou...

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

Light in the oceans? It is chemistry, my friends.  In the inky blackness of the deep sea, more than 90% of the animals are luminescent. It i...

Living and Fossil Ginko biloba The gorgeous yellow lobed leaf you see here is from a Maidenhair Tree — Ginko . These lovelies grow slowly bu...

The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil.  What looks to be...

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