FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Xiphactinus audax Nature is full of elegant specialists, each perfectly adapted to their niche. Xiphactinus appears to have specialised in m...

Welcome to the world of bees. This fuzzy yellow and black striped fellow is a bumblebee in the genus  Bombus sp.,  family Apidae.  We know h...

Cradled within the soft blue-grey embrace of the Gault Clay lies this beautifully preserved Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus , collected from ...

Apoderoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Meet Apoderoceras , one of the Jurassic's finest ammonites. This beauty is a personal fav of mine an...

Ordovician Seas Ordovician seas, some 485 to 444 million years ago, were gloriously alive.  If the Cambrian was Earth's exuberant dress ...

Mist clings to the moss-draped cedars, and the river below churns with the silver flash of salmon fighting upstream.  Then, out of the shado...

This beauty is  Asaphiscus wheeleri , one of the most beloved trilobites from North America's Cambrian seas. This elegant species lived ...

The Permian Amphibian Diplocaulus If evolution had a sense of humour—and I strongly suspect it did—then Diplocaulus would be one of its fin...

Fossil Gastropod: Musashia If you’ve ever set foot on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, you know it feels like walking into awe inspiring natu...

Seymouria baylorensis Feed me, Seymouria!" No, not the man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors — though life in the Early Permian ...

Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene whe...

Misty shores, moss-covered forests, dappled light, and the smell of salt air—these are my memories of Haida Gwaii, a land where ancient stor...

There is a particular kind of quiet magic in the world, the sort that sends a small shiver of awe through you when all the elements of deep ...

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

Nootka Fossil Field Trip. Photo: John Fam The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers spectacular views of a wild British Columbia. Her...

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