FOSSIL HUNTRESS

For those who know me—and many of you know me rather well—you'll know I carry around a very long bucket list. Some of it is wonderfully ...

Fossil Whale Skeleton, Wadi Al-Hitan Egypt’s Eocene limestones captivate geologists and paleontologists from around the world.  These pale, ...

The story of sheep begins long before shepherds, wool sweaters, and stone fences.  It starts in the rugged mountains and open grasslands of ...

Waco Mammoth National Moment Fossil Site If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a herd of Columbian mammoths, a flash flood, and 21st-cen...

Spinosaurus, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Egypt is often celebrated for its pyramids and pharaohs, but beneath those golden sands lies ...

The rugged terrain of Hornby Island is formed from sediments of the upper Nanaimo Group which are also widely exposed on adjacent Denman Is...

A lazy walrus lounges on an ice floe, its massive, blubbery body shimmering under the low Arctic sun.  With a deep, rumbling sigh, it shifts...

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...

Rajasaurus narmadensis In the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between...

They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don’t hear an owl arrive.  You feel it—the brief shift in th...

José Fernando Bonaparte One of the hardest-working, most intense and multi-faceted palaeontologists to ever grace our planet was José Fernan...

The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil.  What looks to be...

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart.  Meet Suchomimus tenerensis , a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what...

This handsome armoured fellow is Bothriolepis canadensis —one of the greats of the Late Devonian seas, here in replica form but no less marv...

Freshwater turtles come in all shapes and sizes, but few inspire quite as much awe as Stupendemys geographicus — an aptly named giant whos...