FOSSIL HUNTRESS

One of the little animals I see daily in Kitsilano, Vancouver, are the very busy, highly comic rodents we know as squirrels.  They spend the...

Ophthalmoplax brasiliana   / Photo: José F. Ventura‎ Ventral view of the carnivorous portunoid crab Ophthalmoplax brasiliana (Maury, 19...

An excellent example of the ammonite, Hoplites bennettiana  (Sowby, 1826) with a pathology. This beauty is from Albian deposits near Carri...

An exquisite specimen of the delicately ridged ammonite, Porpoceras verticosum , from Middle Toarcian outcrops adjacent the Rhône in southea...

This is a tale of friendship, tragic loss and fossil bees and an introduction to one of the most delightful paleo enthusiasts I have ever ha...

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...

Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) A stunning example of the internal suturing with calcite infill in this sliced  Aioloceras besa...

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

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...

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

What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for whom...

Aturia angustata , Lower Miocene, WA This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near Clallam Bay, O...

Zenaspis pololica A Devonian bony fish mortality plate showing a lower shield of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) from Lower Devonian de...

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

Coahuilaceratops or "Coahuila Horn Face," is a relatively new genus of Ornithischia Ceratopsidae, a  herbivorous ceratopsian di...