FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Beneath the elegant halls of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris is the fossil skeleton of one of the Pleistocene’s most formi...

The elk you see here, Cervus canadensis , belongs to a lineage stretching deep into the Pleistocene—a time when ice sheets advanced and retr...

Shonisaurus sikanni / Sikanni Chief River More than 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea was still knitting the world ...

Located three hours east of Vancouver, most folks head to Harrison Lake to enjoy its crisp waters, soak in the hot springs, camp or four-whe...

Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis  This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back ...

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

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida , (Carpenter, 1864).   While rare today...

Ja-dai-aich, the outer island There is an old saying that history is written by the victors. In paleontology, it is often written by whoeve...

Cannibalistic Comb Jellies This festive lantern looking lovely belongs to a group of invertebrates known as comb jellies. Comb jellies are n...

Raukar: Gotland, Sweden's Limestone Sea Stacks  Along the rugged Baltic shoreline of Sweden's enchanting island of Gotland, hundreds...

If ever there were a dinosaur that looked like it had dressed for a gala while everyone else showed up in sensible hiking boots, it was Ovir...

Fossil Sand Dollar in Limestone Long before the Nile carved its fertile valley, and before the pyramids rose from the desert sands, Egypt wa...