FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Dodo Birds by Daniel Eskridge Two dodo birds—one warm brown like sun-baked coconut husk, the other a pale, ghostly white with hints of grey—...

Qikiqtania wakei , a fishapod & relative to tetrapods You will likely recall the amazing tetrapodomorpha fossil found on Ellesmere Islan...

The irresistable tetrapod Tiktaalik In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to m...

A lazy walrus lounges on an ice floe, its massive, blubbery body shimmering under the low Arctic sun.  With a deep, rumbling sigh, it shifts...

There is a particular kind of quiet magic in the world, the sort that sends a small shiver of awe through you when all the elements of deep ...

On a frosty Washington morning, when mist clings to the Douglas firs and frost paints the ferns silver, a flit of motion catches your eye—a ...

Saber-Toothed Cat,  Machairodus aphanistus The skull before you lies cradled in a glass case at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in ...

Reynisfjara, Iceland's Black Sand Beach Imagine a beach covered with impossibly smooth black stones. In site of the shore, stand tall bl...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , tip-toes toward a frisky (and very startled) Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis — two wonderfully ...

What is most wonderful about natural science is that every fossil—every spiral, ridge, and suture—opens a window onto a vanished world.  Tak...

The massive marine reptile vertebra you see here—broad, five-sided, drum-shaped, and heavy enough to require two hands to lift—once belonged...

Step back into the deep Paleozoic—an era that began some 540 million years ago with oceans bustling with trilobites, early fish, and soft-bo...

This tasty block of Semenovites (Anahoplites) cf. michalskii hails from Cretaceous, Albian deposits that outcrop on the Tupqaraghan — Mangy...

Misty shores, moss-covered forests, dappled light, and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida Gwaii, a land where ancient stor...