FOSSIL HUNTRESS
MUSINGS MEANT TO CAPTIVATE, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE
Monday 13 May 2024
HIGHLANDS OF ICELAND: AURORA
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The Northern Lights over a sea of wildflowers in the marsh near Landmannalaugar, part of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of ...
Sunday 12 May 2024
KILLER WHALES OF THE PACIFIC: KEET MAX'INUX
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One of the iconic animals of the Pacific Northwest are Orca or Killer Whales — Keet in Lingit. Keet-Shaa-gooon' — our ancestors. These p...
Saturday 11 May 2024
DANCING ATOMS: AURORA BOREALIS
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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...
Friday 10 May 2024
FOSSIL FISHAPODS OF CANADA'S FAR NORTH
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Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...
Thursday 9 May 2024
SPIRALLING BEAUTY: TURRITELLA
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Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. They started as exclusively marine but have adapted well ...
Wednesday 8 May 2024
JUVENILE HAMITES SUBROTUNDUS
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A tremendously delicate juvenile Hamites subrotundus (J. Sowerby 1814) from Upper Albian outcrops in Mallorca, the largest of the three B...
Tuesday 7 May 2024
BLADDER-BEARERS: HOODED SEALS
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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 ...
Monday 6 May 2024
QUENSTEDTOCERAS WITH PATHOLOGY
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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...
Sunday 5 May 2024
CANADA'S GREAT BEARS: TLA'YI
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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. ...
Saturday 4 May 2024
DARWIN: A TASTE FOR STUDIES
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Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904 Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth? While eating stud...
Friday 3 May 2024
LOWER LIAS LYTOCERAS
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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...
Thursday 2 May 2024
KAZAKHSTAN ANAHOPLITES
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This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii ammonites hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaragh...
Wednesday 1 May 2024
HUMPBACK WHALES: MEGAPTERA NOVAENGLIAE
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Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, a species of baleen whale for whom...
Tuesday 30 April 2024
SUNSETS AND SUPERNOVAE
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Sunsets — pure visual poetry: peaceful, meditative, mesmerizing. What is sunlight, actually? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so muc...
Monday 29 April 2024
WOOLLY MAMMOTHS: ANCIENT SNOW POUGHS
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Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius , have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived along...
Sunday 28 April 2024
UPPER CRETACEOUS MOTORCROSS SITE: VANCOUVER ISLAND
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Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...
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