FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Trent River, Vancouver Island, BC Deep in the moss-draped forests of Vancouver Island, beneath a green canopy of second-growth firs and the ...

Looking out over the Middle Triassic exposures of the Humboldt Mountain Range. I was down in Nevada to walk through the outcrops of the Hu...

This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis. The vertebrae you see here are from t...

Stretching the legs on a Spring stroll Some of Vancouver Island’s many bears take a stroll through the wilds in the Comox Valley.  While stu...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...