Friday, 30 May 2025

A RESCUE IN STROMNESS HARBOUR: ERNEST SHACKLETON

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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...
Tuesday, 27 May 2025

KI'A'PILANO: STONE, BONE & WATER

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Cretaceous Plant Material / Three Brothers Formation Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, forests, lowlands, inlets and rivers ...
Tuesday, 20 May 2025

BLUE JAY: KWASKWAS

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If you live in North American, there is a high probability that you have seen or heard the bird song of the Blue jay,  Cyanocitta cristata ...
Monday, 19 May 2025

BRONZE BEAUTY: EIFELIAN PARALEJURUS

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This bronzed beauty is the Middle Devonian, Eifelian (~395 mya) trilobite, Paralejurus rehamnanus (Alberti, 1970) from outcrops near Issoum...
Tuesday, 13 May 2025

SKØKKENMØDDINGER: CaCO3(s) + 2HCl(aq) → CaCl2(aq) + CO2(g) + H2O(l)

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Johnny Scow's Kwakw a k a 'wakw Kwakiutl House, 1918 Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. Some...
Friday, 9 May 2025

FOSSILS OF HORNBY ISLAND

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Diplomoceras sp . This gorgeous cream and brown big beast of a heteromorph, Diplomoceras (Diplomoceras) sp. , (Hyatt, 1900) was found within...
Tuesday, 6 May 2025

NATURAL DYES: INDIGO

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Natural dyes are dyes or colourants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The colours they give us range from muddy to vibrant ...
Saturday, 3 May 2025

BARNACLES: KWIT'A'A

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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 ...
Friday, 2 May 2025

AINOCERAS: VANCOUVER ISLAND HETEROMORPH

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...
Thursday, 1 May 2025

OUR GREAT BEARS: URSAVUS TO NAN

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GREAT BEAR NA̱N Hiking in BC, both grizzly and black bear sightings are common. Nearly half the world's population, some 25,000 Grizzly ...
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

FOSSILS OF CANADA'S EASTERN SHORES

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Hylonomus lyelli, Ancestor of all dinosaurs The fossil cliffs at Joggins are one of Canada's gems, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, yo...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

LOTUS FLOWER FRUIT

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Lotus Flower Fruit, Nelumbo This beauty is the fruit of the lotus, Nelumbo . This specimen was found by Green River Stone (GRS) in early Eoc...
Saturday, 26 April 2025

ETHELDRED BENETT OF WILTSHIRE: FIRST FEMALE GEOLOGIST

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In the early days of paleontology, men were men, and women, quite frankly, were not paleontologists, geologists, members of the Royal Societ...