FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Eighty million years ago, long before Texas acquired highways, cattle ranches or the unshakeable belief that everything should be larger the...

Dickinsonia , Kimberella , and Funisia Long before teeth began biting, shells began clattering, or trilobites developed the audacity to scut...

Clementine Helm Beyrich On a grey Berlin morning in the winter of 1863, a young girl named Anna quietly entered her foster mother’s study. S...

Finding a fossil is like time-traveling with your hands.  One moment you’re walking along a riverbank or quarry, scanning the ground, and th...

Coprolites: Fossil Poop Not every fossil enters the scientific record wrapped in dignity. Some emerge from the rock with elegant ribs, formi...

A young Black Bear cub, Ursus americanus , tip-toes toward a frisky (and very startled) Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis — two wonderfully ...

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

European Flamingo At dawn along the salt lagoons of the Mediterranean, the European flamingo rises like a soft-feathered sunrise, a sweep of...

There are fossils that whisper and then there are those that positively sing. This interesting beauty is a splendid specimen of Anahoplites...

Blue Whale Remains, Balaenoptera musculus Along the stony shore of Jougla Point, near Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula, a scatter of ...

Cassowary, Casuariiformes Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you know your local birds. True, you may call them des Oiseaux, p...

Puffbird similar to Fossil Birds found at Driftwood Canyon  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park  Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hec...