FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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

In the sun-warmed hills and river valleys around Córdoba, the rocks are doing what they do best—keeping secrets for half a billion years, th...

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

High in the emerald canopy, a branch sways and sunlight spills through a mosaic of leaves. There—an orangutan moves with unhurried grace, he...

A century on this Earth, and what a century it has been. Sir David Attenborough turns 100—a milestone that feels almost poetic for a man who...

Bison move across the prairie like living storms, vast and steady, with the weight of centuries in their stride.  Their dark eyes hold a qui...

Julius Csotonyi © Julius Csotonyi Up in the High Arctic, where the wind cuts clean across a stark polar desert and the ground remembers a ve...

They rise quietly from the earth—tall, time-carved sentinels shaped by wind, water, and patience.  They lean, they shift, they endure. Not i...

Meet one of the ocean’s more charming lawnmowers — the dugong — an endearing aquatic vacuum with a taste for seagrass and a lineage that run...

Meet Pseudothurmannia — one of those marvellous Cretaceous ammonites that looks as though nature spent extra time on the details.  This ext...

If fossil fuels are made from fossils, are oil, gas and coal made from dead dinosaurs? Well, no, but they are made from fossils.  We do ...

At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...

In the Field with Vancouverite Geoscientist Andy Randell — We were super excited to spend a day with the awesome possum that is Andy Randell...

Tall, spotty, and just a little bit absurd—let’s talk about the giraffe, nature’s own high-rise browser with a flair for the dramatic. Meet ...

Tallheo Cannery Perched atop weathered, rotting pilings and wrapped in the mist and mood of British Columbia’s wild north coast sits the Tal...

Chrysocetus foudasil  The impressive skull you see here belongs to Chrysocetus foudasil a member of the Basilosauridae, an ancient family of...

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