FOSSIL HUNTRESS

There are museums that politely suggest you admire science from a respectful distance… and then there are places like Vienna’s Naturhistoris...

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum PaleoLab If you find yourself wandering through downtown Miami with a coffee in one hand and a healthy app...

Well now, would you have a look at this bonnie wee beastie.  This braw Scottish lad is Ceratiocaris papilio (Salter in Murchison, 1859), a...

Trilobite and Sea Scorpion Fossil Trackways This curious wee slab is absolutely alive with movement from the Mississippian seas, laid down s...

This glorious discoidal darling is Mene rhombea , an extinct moonfish from the legendary Monte Bolca deposits of northeastern Italy.  She li...

There’s a particular kind of madness that takes hold when you arrive at Kimmeridge Bay on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset.  You tell yourself y...

Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) Meet the mighty Mola mola — the ocean’s giant floating dinner plate with the personality of an overgrown puppy ...

Flower encased in amber Plant fossils are found coast-to-coast in Canada, from 45-million-year-old mosses in British Columbia to fossil fore...

It began with a bloom, Florissantia quilchenensis , its petals splayed across a creamy, beige-brown matrix like a fossilized whisper from a ...

In the early days of paleontology, men were men, and women, quite frankly, were not paleontologists, geologists, members of the Royal Societ...

Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus Imagine cresting a windswept hillside in the fading amber of a Pleistocene sunset.  The tall grass parts in...

Tucked along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, just outside Denver, Colorado, lies one of the world’s most famous fossil localities: D...

Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod Comparison The wind always arrives first. It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing y...