FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Slip beneath the surface of a Devonian sea—some 419 to 359 million years ago—and you enter a world rightly dubbed the Age of Fishes.  Life h...

This bronzed beauty hails from an early chapter in Earth’s story — a Middle Devonian treasure, Eifelian in age, some 395 million years old. ...

Walk along any rocky beach on the Pacific coast after a storm, and you’ll likely find a treasure trove of kelp washed ashore—long ribbons of...

Sixty-six million years ago, on an otherwise unremarkable day at the close of the Cretaceous, the world changed in an instant. If you had be...

Step into deep time with The Fossil Huntress Podcast—a journey through the ancient heartbeat of our planet. Close your eyes and imagine the ...

Slip beneath the surface of a Late Cretaceous ocean—if you dare—and you enter the domain of one of Earth’s most spectacular marine predators...

Cannibalistic Comb Jellies This festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies. Comb jellies are n...

This fierce predator with the luxurious coat is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was...

Anemones—those soft, petaled hunters swaying with the rhythm of the sea, looking more like flowers than animals until you notice the lightni...

Back in the 1880s, from fragments of bone weathered by time and tide, a most curious creature emerged into scientific view — an ancient toot...

Hollardops sp.  Devonian Trilobite Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle D...

Kourisodon puntledgensis You would be a brave soul to be swimming in the warm, shallow seas of the Late Cretaceous—and braver still to linge...

Lobolytoceras costellatum This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pat...

Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles.  They cling to ...

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one.  He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  a species of baleen whale for who...

Meet one of the most wonderfully peculiar animals to ever grace our ancient seas.  This five-eyed marvel swam through the Cambrian oceans so...

Nature awes me everyday. Quiet moments often shared solo or if lucky, with a good friend or one of the amazing animals that walk this Earth....

This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis ( Parabolinoides ) spinula (Westrop, 1986), an Upper Cambrian trilobite recovered from the McKay Group...

A gull cries in protest at not getting his share of a meal Many of us have the good fortune to live near the sea. It is one of the places I ...