FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

CRUISIN THE FOSSIL FREEWAY: ALASKAN PALEONTOLOGY

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Alaska, often called the "Last Frontier," is not only home to staggering wilderness and modern megafauna like bears and moose—it’s...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

KIRK JOHNSON: FOSSIL LEAVES TO ANCIENT ECOSYSTEMS

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Dr. Kirk Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is a paleontologist, science communicator, and fo...
Sunday, 29 June 2025

GHOST CATS OF THE AMERICAS: COUGARS

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Cougar, Puma concolor Cougars, also known as mountain lions, pumas, or panthers—depending on where you live—are among the most elusive and a...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

MIGWAT: SLEEK, PLAYFUL SEALS

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Seals—those sleek, playful creatures that glide through our oceans and lounge on rocky shores—are part of a remarkable evolutionary story st...
Friday, 27 June 2025

PORT HARDY: TIME AND TIDE

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One of the most beautiful areas of Vancouver Island is the town of Port Hardy on the north end of the island.  Just outside Port Hardy furth...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

GULLS ON THE FORESHORE: TSIK'WI

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A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the subord...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

EXPLORING WRANGELLIA: HAIDA GWAII

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Misty shores, moss covered forests, a rich cultural history, dappled light, fossils and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

NASAL SACS AND CHILLY WATERS: HOODED SEALS

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If you frequent the eastern coast of North America north of Maine to the western tip of Europe, along the coast of Norway near Svalbard you ...
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...
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