FOSSIL HUNTRESS

This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa. This lo...

Young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus The lovely fellow you see here is a young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus , with a wee dusting...

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

Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...

The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountains against a clear blue sky.  That is no...

The species' name is a homage to Etheldred Benett, an early English geologist often credited with being the first female geologist — a ...

Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...

A Grizzly Bear takes a rest on a fallen log in Alaska. While stumbling upon them may cause us surprise, they have heard us  (and smelled us)...

Apodoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Apoderoceras is a wonderful example of sexual dimorphism within ammonites as the macroconch (female) s...

This fierce predator with the luxurious coat and claws getting the upper hand in this fight is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust kill...

Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. They started as exclusively marine but have adapted well ...

One of the most delightful palaeontologists to grace our Earth was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 February 2020).  We often thin...

A lovely 12 cm creamy orange Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops sp . lumbar vertebrae found in the Brown Bank area of the North Sea, one of the bu...

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