FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

Dall's Porpoise These delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise.  In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl ...

Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, lo...

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...

Some lovely examples of Douvilleiceras mammillatum ( Schlotheim, 1813), ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous (Middle-Lower Albian) Douvillice...

This beautiful dinosaur track is from Kalasin Dinosaur Park in northeastern Thailand.  Thailand boasts some of the finest Mesozoic trackways...

Look at how this protective mamma bear holds her cub in her arms to give him a bit of a wash.  Her gentle maternal care is truly touching. ...

Glyptodonts are the early ancestors of our modern armadillos that roamed North and South America during the Pleistocene.  Armadillos, both...

The old adage, you are what you eat, might be best amended to you are what you can digest.  For all the mammals, you and I included, we need...

Holotype Specimen of P. walkeri , Royal Ontario Museum Love Dinosaurs? We can find this beauty—  Parasaurolophus walkeri  in the Dinosaur P...

This lovely dark rust chunky monkey is the ammonite Desmoceras ( Pseudouhligella ) latidorsatum from the Lower Cretaceous, Lower Albian, Do...

Freshwater turtles come in all shapes and sizes but one of the most interesting and massive of these is the now-extinct freshwater turtle ...

What do temperature, sand and sex have in common? Well, for the Green Sea Turtle—everything. When these cuties are still in their shells in...

Bald Eagle / Kwikw /  Haliaeetus leucocephalus A mighty Bald Eagle sitting with wings spread looks to be controlling the weather with his wi...

Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...

This past weekend, I was exploring the western edge of central Vancouver Island, home to the Pacheedaht First Nation. Their traditional unce...

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