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Saturday, 17 August 2024

FROM FISH TO TETRAPODS

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Elpistostege watsoni In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrat...
Friday, 16 August 2024

AMMONITE FROM FOLKSTONE

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Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...
Thursday, 15 August 2024

UNESCOCERATOPS BY JULIUS CSOTONYI

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Unescoceratops koppelhusae , Julius Csotonyi A very sweet small leptoceratopsid dinosaur, Unescoceratops koppelhusae — a new species in th...
Friday, 9 August 2024

NOOTKA FOSSILS AND FIRST NATIONS HISTORY

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Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John Fam The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Her...
Sunday, 4 August 2024

FOSSILS OF CANADA'S EASTERN SHORES

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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Saturday, 3 August 2024

FOSSIL AMPHIBIANS OF NOVA SCOTIA

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Dendrerpeton acadianum , an extinct amphibian One of the best Canadian fossil finds stems from a random boulder picked up on the beach near ...
Friday, 2 August 2024

FOSSIL FROM THE GAULT

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The chunky ammonite Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, bed II (iv), Folkstone Gault Clay, county of Kent, southeast England. This matrix yo...
Thursday, 18 July 2024

GIGANTIC FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

HETEROPTERA: SNEAKOPTERA

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A sweet little water bug from the suborder Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810). He looks more like a cartoon character that any other specimen I...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

FOSSIL RHINO AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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Monday, 15 July 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...
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

NEVADA PALAEONTOLOGY: BERLIN-ICHTHYOSAUR STATE PARK

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Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park High on the hillside up a long entry road sits the entrance to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in ...
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