FOSSIL HUNTRESS

The Northern Lights over a sea of wildflowers in the marsh near Landmannalaugar, part of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of ...

One of the iconic animals of the Pacific Northwest are Orca or Killer Whales — Keet in Lingit. Keet-Shaa-gooon' — our ancestors. These p...

If you live in the northern hemisphere, you stand a very good chance of seeing the aurora borealis this evening. We had a spectacular showin...

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

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

A tremendously delicate juvenile Hamites subrotundus  (J. Sowerby 1814) from Upper Albian outcrops in Mallorca, the largest of the three B...

If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you ...

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 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. ...

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

A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...

This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii ammonites hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaragh...

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

Sunsets — pure visual poetry: peaceful, meditative, mesmerizing. What is sunlight, actually? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so muc...

Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius ,  have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...