FOSSIL HUNTRESS

One of my favourite pairs of earrings are a simple set of pearls. I have worn them pretty much every day since 2016, when I received them as...

Spinosaurus, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Egypt is often celebrated for its pyramids and pharaohs, but beneath those golden sands lies ...

Fossil Whale Skeleton, Wadi Al-Hitan Egypt’s Eocene limestones captivate geologists and paleontologists from around the world.  These pale, ...

Fossil Sand Dollar in Limestone Long before the Nile carved its fertile valley, and before the pyramids rose from the desert sands, Egypt wa...

The Pyramids' Limestone Blocks The logistics behind pyramid construction were as remarkable as the monuments themselves.  Ancient engine...

Tethys Ocean Long before the first pharaohs ruled the Nile, Egypt lay beneath the warm, shallow waters of the Tethys Ocean—a vanished sea th...

Aerial View of the Great Pyramids of Giza From above, the Giza Plateau unfurls like a map of human ambition etched into the desert.  Three m...

Built to endure the tests of time, the pyramids of Giza stand as some of the oldest and last remaining wonders of the ancient world.  Rising...

Much of Egypt’s history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as ancient—a land of pharaohs, pyramids, and hieroglyphs etched in stone—bu...

Mount Robson If mountains could preen, Mount Robson would be standing in front of a mirror right now, admiring its reflection in Berg Lake a...

Across the open grasslands, the earth trembles. A low rumble builds into a rolling thunder as a herd of bison surges across the plain—massiv...

Gargoyleosaurus by Daniel Eskridge Step back into the lush forests of the Late Jurassic, about 155 million years ago, where ferns brushed t...

Chrysocetus foudasil  The impressive skull you see here belongs to Chrysocetus foudasil a member of the Basilosauridae, an ancient family of...

José Fernando Bonaparte One of the most delightful palaeontologists to grace our Earth was José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 Februa...

From the dark shales of the Piranha Formation in Bolivia comes a striking fossil — Isograptus cf. maximus , a graptolite from the Middle Ord...

Dimetrodon by Daniel Eskridge In the steamy forests of the early Permian, some 295 million years ago, a Dimetrodon prowls through a world t...

If you’ve ever wandered the fossil-rich hills of Nevada and come across a delicate, winged shell embedded in ancient limestone, you may have...

When you ask most folk to think of a dinosaur and share the first mighty brute that comes to mind, it is almost always  Tyrannosaurus rex —t...