FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world ...

Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...

Mammoths are a personal favourite of mine and there is a particularly fetching specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.  Amongst its ...

Audouliceras Heteromorph Ammonite There are sensible ammonites… and then there are the heteromorphs. Audouliceras belongs firmly in the sec...

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart.  Meet Suchomimus tenerensis , a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what...

This creamy, beige specimen of Aporrhais sp ., is a fossil marine gastropod from the Goodland Formation of Fort Worth, Texas, a limestone un...

Armadillos, part tank, part roly-poly If you’ve ever seen an armadillo, you know they look like something straight out of a prehistoric cart...

A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...

Rajasaurus narmadensis In the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between...

Albertonia sp ., Cranbrook Museum Collection This beauty, with its graceful sail-like fins and armour of lustrous, diamond-shaped scales, is...

Blue Whale Remains, Balaenoptera musculus Along the stony shore of Jougla Point, near Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula, a scatter of ...

This Early Cretaceous herbivore—living about 113 to 100 million years ago during the Albian—roamed what is now Mongolia.  Its name means “hi...

Yorkshire Coast You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , found in an alum quarry in Y...

Temnodontosaurus crassimanus Meet Temnodontosaurus crassimanus — the sea monster that looked like someone asked nature to weld a dolphin...

Dinosaur Provincial Park Fossil Dig Ohh yes — Dinosaur Provincial Park is one of those places where time just… refuses to mind its manners. ...

Proceratopyge rectispinata A lovely creamy brown Proceratopyge rectispinata trilobite from Upper Cambrian deposits in the McKay Group near ...

Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite—long known as Titanites occidentalis —has officially been given a new name: Cor...

Dolphin Fossil Vertebrae Pulled from the cold, turbid bottom of the North Sea, a fossil dolphin vertebra is a small but eloquent survivor of...