FOSSIL HUNTRESS

North Cascades National Park, Washington State, USA Over vast expanses of time, powerful tectonic forces have massaged the western edg...

This has been the week for Humpback whales visiting the eastern shores of Vancouver Island. These lovelies are, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a s...

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. ...

A lovely 17 cm deep chocolate brown fossil Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops sp . vertebrae found in the Brown Bank area of the North Sea, one of...

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

Aioloceras besairiei (Collingnon, 1949) A stunning example of the internal suturing with calcite infill in this sliced  Aioloceras besa...

A beautiful specimen of the ammonite, Anahoplites planus (Mantell, 1822) from Albian deposits in Villemoyenne Quarry, Courcelles, Aube, nor...

A sweet as you please example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas ...

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...

Living and Fossil Ginko biloba The gorgeous yellow lobed leaf you see here is from a Maidenhair Tree — Ginko . These lovelies grow slowly bu...

Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...

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