FOSSIL HUNTRESS

A new species of trilobite from the upper Cambrian McKay Group was introduced in March of 2020: Aciculolenus askewi .  The species is named ...

If you spend enough time in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, you start to understand why Ursus americanus and Ursus arctos horribilis ...

Maotianshania cylindrica High in the mist-softened hills of Yunnan Province, China, a band of ochre and grey shale holds one of Earth’s most...

John Fam, VIPS & VanPS Over three field seasons, thirty-five taxa from the Mineralense and Rursicostatum zones were studied and three ne...

Hope Whale Stepping into the Natural History Museum, I was immediately greeted by Hope, the enormous blue whale skeleton gliding above Hintz...

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

Voay robustus Let’s begin in Madagascar—a place so rich in oddities that it makes Australia look like it’s playing it safe.  Here, until a f...

This little cutie is a hermit crab and he is wearing a temporary home borrowed from one of our mollusc friends.  His body is a soft, squishy...

Banff National Park is breathtaking from any angle, but from the air it feels otherworldly—an alpine tapestry of turquoise lakes, braided ri...

Lingula anatina — Primitive Brachiopod  One of the most primitive and enduring brachiopods alive today is the caramel-and-cream–coloured Li...

Step into deep time with the Fossil Huntress Podcast—your warm and wonder-filled gateway to dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, and the astoni...

Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Wat...

Clementine Helm Beyrich On a gray Berlin morning in the winter of 1863, a young girl named Anna padded quietly into her foster mother’s stud...

European Flamingo At dawn along the salt lagoons of the Mediterranean, the European flamingo rises like a soft-feathered sunrise, a sweep of...

Mister Mozart Cats—those purring enigmas who act like they invented gravity and disdain—have been perfecting their aloof charm for tens of m...

Step through the Jardin des Plantes on a misty Paris morning and you can almost hear the echo of centuries: the whisper of early botanists b...

Upper Cambrian Trilobite Outcrops When most people imagine British Columbia, they picture sky-scraping mountains, temperate rainforests drip...