FOSSIL HUNTRESS

It began with a bloom, Florissantia quilchenensis , its petals splayed across a creamy, beige-brown matrix like a fossilized whisper from a ...

A Bird's Eye View of BC's Interior Once upon a geologic time—about 52 million years ago—British Columbia wasn’t the mountain-studded...

Metasequoia sp. , collection of Judy Hill There is something deeply comforting about encountering a familiar fossil in the company of wonder...

Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod Comparison The wind always arrives first. It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing y...

Gastrolith from Traskasaura sandrae There’s a fine line between “swallowed by accident” and “intentional meal plan,” and few fossils illustr...

Trekking in Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic When the end-Permian extinction struck 252 million years ago, it nearly wiped the slate clean.  More ...

Retracing the Steps of Paleontologist Jura (George) Jeletzky on the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island We hiked in under the hush of coasta...

Diatryma Restoration & Size Comparison Long before glaciers sculpted the familiar ridges and waterways of western Washington, a vast sub...

Washington State Forest Two hundred million years ago, what we now call Washington wasn’t Washington at all.  It was two drifting islands — ...

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900) Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus , Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington St...

Third Beach in La Push, Washington This is the view of low tide exposing the coastal rocks and sea stacks at Third Beach in La Push, Olympic...