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Tuesday, 12 May 2026

SVALBARD: A WINDOW TO THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION EVENT

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Trekking in Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic When the end-Permian extinction struck 252 million years ago, it nearly wiped the slate clean.  More ...
Monday, 11 May 2026

CORDOBA: FOSSILS, ROMANS AND SWEET SECRETS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

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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...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

HORSESHOE CRABS: LIVING FOSSILS

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Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa. Much like (slow) Wat...
Saturday, 9 May 2026

ORANGUTANS: THE FOREST PHILOSOPHERS

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High in the emerald canopy, a branch sways and sunlight spills through a mosaic of leaves. There—an orangutan moves with unhurried grace, he...
Friday, 8 May 2026

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A CENTURY OF WONDER

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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...
Thursday, 7 May 2026

SHAGGY TITANS OF THE GRASSLANDS: BISON

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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...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

ICE, SNOW AND RHINOS: EPIATHERACERIUM ITJILIK

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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...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

EAGER FORMATION IN THE KTUNAXA HOMELANDS

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They rise quietly from the earth—tall, time-carved sentinels shaped by wind, water, and patience.  They lean, they shift, they endure. Not i...
Monday, 4 May 2026

SEAGRASS, SASS AND SIRENIA

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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...
Sunday, 3 May 2026

PSEUDOTHURMANNIA: CRETACEOUS AMMONITE

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Meet Pseudothurmannia — one of those marvellous Cretaceous ammonites that looks as though nature spent extra time on the details.  This ext...
Saturday, 2 May 2026

ANCIENT SWAMPS AND SOLAR FLARES

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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 ...
Friday, 1 May 2026

AMMONITES IN CONCRETION

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At first glance they look like ordinary stones—rounded, weathered, unassuming.  But then you notice the delicious hints: a spiral ghosting t...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

IN THE FIELD WITH ANY RANDALL: KITSILANO FOSSIL SITE

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In the Field with Vancouverite Geoscientist Andy Randell — We were super excited to spend a day with the awesome possum that is Andy Randell...
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

NECKS FOR DAYS: THE LONG GAME OF GIRAFFE EVOLUTION

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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 ...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

SALMON CANNERIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

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Tallheo Cannery Perched atop weathered, rotting pilings and wrapped in the mist and mood of British Columbia’s wild north coast sits the Tal...
Monday, 27 April 2026

ECHOES FROM THE EOCENE: A WHALE BETWEEN WORLDS

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Chrysocetus foudasil  The impressive skull you see here belongs to Chrysocetus foudasil a member of the Basilosauridae, an ancient family of...
Sunday, 26 April 2026

TERTAPODS AND THE VERTEBRATE HAND

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