FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Light in the oceans? It is chemistry, my friends.  In the inky blackness of the deep sea, more than 90% of the animals are luminescent. It i...

Totem, Welcome & Mortuary Poles at Stanley Park If you visit Brockton Point in Stanley Park, there are many carved red cedar First Natio...

Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus  Ho Ho Ho. Ice, Snow, Reindeer & Ichthyosaurs — Svalbard is just what I imagine my version of Valhalla to be...

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...

One of my favourite pairs of earrings are a simple set of pearls. I have worn them pretty much every day since 2016 when I received them as ...

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

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

One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles. They cling to rocks deep in the sea and at ...

Our dear penguins, seals, sea lions, walruses, whales, crocodiles and sea turtles were once entirely terrestrial. Yes, they lived mostly o...

Hollardops sp.  Devonian Trilobite Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle D...

The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil.  What looks to be...

We can trace the lineage of barnacles back to the Middle Cambrian. That is half a billion years of data to sift through.  If you divide that...

Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles.  They cling to ...

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

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