FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus Imagine cresting a windswept hillside in the fading amber of a Pleistocene sunset.  The tall grass parts in...

Deinonychus antirrhopus If you met Deinonychus in the Early Cretaceous, your first thought might be, “ What a splendid bird .”  Your second...

Look how epic this little guy is!  He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived.  While that may not be strictl...

Steller’s sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas The Steller’s sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas , was an enormous marine mammal that once grazed the kelp fo...

Chanterelles: Golden Gems of the Cowichan Forest Autumn rains drench the mossy forests around Duncan, Cowichan Lake, and Mount Prevost, and ...

Chrysocetus foudasil  The impressive skull you see here belongs to Chrysocetus foudasil a member of the Basilosauridae, an ancient family of...

Red pandas may look like a charming mixture of fox, raccoon and teddy bear, but they are none of the above.  The red panda, Ailurus fulgens ...

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

Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1900) Some water-worn samples of the bivalve Verdipectin fucanus , Clallam Formation, Clallam Bay, Washington St...

Chariocrinus andrae , Collection: David Appleton Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms.  It is magical when all the elements come tog...

Looking rather like a tiny carnivore dressed for a masquerade ball, the marbled polecat, Vormela peregusna , is a rare member of the weasel ...

Palaeontologists have just identified the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils found outside North America.  Until this discovery, confirmed D...

Sugar gliders may look like someone crossed a mouse with a flying squirrel and then equipped it with enormous night-vision goggles, but thes...

If you’ve ever wandered through an old-growth forest at dusk and felt the hair rise on the back of your neck, there’s a chance you were in w...

Much of Egypt’s history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as ancient—a land of pharaohs, pyramids, and hieroglyphs etched in stone—bu...

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

The Extinct Quagga, Equus quagga The quagga was one of southern Africa’s most distinctive grazing animals—a zebra at the front, a chestnut-b...