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Friday, 7 March 2025

MEMEKAY JURASSIC AMMONITES OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Coroniceras sp. from Sayward, British Columbia This yummy Lower Jurassic ammonite with the creamy dark chocolate colouring is from an all bu...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

THE DUDLEY BUG: ROLLED TRILOBITES

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A lovely rolled trilobite, Calymene blumenbachii ,  from outcrops in the UK. This wee beauty is in the collections of the deeply awesome The...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

YORKSHIRE HISTORY: FOSSILS, TEXTILES AND URINE

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Yorkshire Coast You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , found in an alum quarry in Y...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

FOSSIL BIRDS OF SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Stemec suntokum , Sooke Formation The diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum , a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada....
Saturday, 1 March 2025

FRACTAL BUILDING: AMMONITES

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Thursday, 27 February 2025

ANCIENT OCTOPUS: KEUPPIA

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A sweet as you please example of Keuppia levante (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas ...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

BEAUTIFUL QUENSTEDTOCERAS AMMONITE WITH PATHOLOGY

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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby).  It is a pathology in the she...
Monday, 24 February 2025

15TH BCPA SYMPOSIUM: AUG 22-25, 2025 IN COURTENAY

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You are cordially invited to the 15th BCPA Symposium, August 22-25, 2025 at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay in the Comox Valley, Va...
Saturday, 22 February 2025

LIVING FOSSILS: PERFECTION FROM THE GET GO

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Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Wat...
Friday, 21 February 2025

GEOLOGY AND FOSSILS OF THE 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, 20 February 2025

LOVE CAN TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN AN INSTANT

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Nunatsiarmiut Mother and Child, Baffin Island, Nunavut Warm light bathes this lovely Nunatsiarmiut mother and child from Baffin Island, Nuna...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

TIKTAALIK, TETRAPODS AND MIGUASHA

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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...
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