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Friday 31 May 2024
PALAEONTOLOGY OF CANADA'S EAST KOOTENAY REGION
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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...
Thursday 30 May 2024
THE GIANT FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Wednesday 29 May 2024
FOSSIL SEA LILLIES: CRINOIDS
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Uintacrinus socialis from Utah, USA Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms. It is magical when all the elements come together to pres...
Monday 27 May 2024
DINOFLAGELLATES: TEENSY OCEAN STARS
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This showy Christmas Cracker is a Dinoflagellate The showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate. Bi...
Sunday 26 May 2024
ETHELDRED BENETT: ENGLISH GEOLOGIST & PALEONTOLOGIST
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In the early days of paleontology, men were men, and women, quite frankly, were not paleontologists, geologists, members of the Royal Societ...
Friday 24 May 2024
HUMPBACK WHALES: GWA'YAM
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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...
Thursday 23 May 2024
METASEQUOIA: A LIVING FOSSIL
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Autumn is a wonderful time to explore Vancouver. It is a riot of yellow, orange and green. The fallen debris you crunch through send up waft...
Wednesday 22 May 2024
MANATEE: PLEISTOCENE TEXANS
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Manatees do not live year-round in Texas, but these gentle sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a summer vacation and r...
Tuesday 21 May 2024
VOLTERRA: ALABASTER
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The beautiful walled city of Volterra, an ancient Etruscan town some 45 miles southwest of Florence, is famous for its well-preserve...
Monday 20 May 2024
GOOSE / NAXAK
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander. A goose is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. They ca...
Sunday 19 May 2024
T'LOXT'LOX: WEST COAST OYSTERS
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One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864). While rare today...
Saturday 18 May 2024
SLOTHS & BLUE GREEN ALGAE
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Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, lo...
Friday 17 May 2024
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM: PLIENSBACHIAN APODEROCERAS
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Apodoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Apoderoceras is a wonderful example of sexual dimorphism within ammonites as the macroconch (female) s...
Thursday 16 May 2024
PARTY OF TWO: ANGLERFISH
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The festive lassie you see here is an Anglerfish. They always look to be celebrating a birthday of some kind, albeit solo. This party is h...
Wednesday 15 May 2024
BREWERICERAS HULENENSE
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Brewericeras hulenense (Anderson 1938) a fast-moving, nektonic (no idle floating here!) carnivorous ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous (Al...
Tuesday 14 May 2024
ATURIA: MIOCENE NAUTILOID
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Aturia angustata , Lower Miocene, WA This lovely Lower Miocene nautiloid is Aturia angustata collected on the foreshore near Clallam Bay, O...
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