FOSSIL HUNTRESS

A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...

Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, lo...

This past weekend, I stopped in to have a visit with Tina and Graham Beard in Qualicum Beach and the topic of the starfish Helianthaster cam...

Moon Jelly Fish / Aurelia Aurita Aurelia aurita (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a wide...

Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hec...

Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...

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

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...

Cretaceous Plant Material / Three Brothers Formation Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, forests, lowlands, inlets and rivers ...

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

Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognizable as Stegosaurus , with its double row of towering bony plates and spiked tail.  This herbivore, w...

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

Cibelella Coronata / Photo: Alexei Molchanov A spectacular creamy toned specimen of the trilobite Cibelella Coronata  striking a very an...

Mesmerizing, delicate and seemingly impossible — this lovely luminescent denizen of the sea has been living in our oceans for more than half...

Stromness Whaling Station A cautious seal pokes up his head to greet you as you walk the ground of Stromness, an abandoned whaling station o...