FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles.  They cling to ...

There is a version of Vancouver Island that few ever see. Not the emerald forests draped in moss, the crashing Pacific surf or the towering ...

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...