Bitten and Smitten by the Mineral Bug
This is a blast from the past and the tale of how I was bitten and smitten by the mineral bug. I hope you enjoy this story from my youth growing up on the northern end of Vancouver Island, British Col...
10 Nov 20228min
Extinct Giants: Woolly Mammoths
Extinct Giants: The Woolly Mammoths. These massive beasts roamed the icy cold tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America from about 300,000 years ago up until about 10,000 years ago making a living by ...
9 Nov 202212min
Fossil Gear: What to Bring Fossil Collecting
Learn all about the gear you might need out in the field fossil collecting. What you'll need depends on where you collect and what time of year you go but this will get you started and set up for succ...
8 Nov 20228min
Hunting Ichthyosaurs in the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard
Join in for a chilly visit to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard between mainland Norway and the North Pole. This one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas with rugged terrain, glaciers and p...
7 Nov 20227min
The Weird and the Wonderful: Lessons from the Cambrian
Joe Moysiuk is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, with research interests in macroevolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and the origin of animal life. He has extensive experience w...
26 Sep 202255min
Welcome to Season Seven
Welcome to Season Seven of the Fossil Huntress Podcast. In this episode you’ll hear about the many yummy fossil projects and field trips over the past few months including a trip to Vancouver Island’s...
20 Jul 20226min
Kirk Johnson — A Lucky Paleontologist & the Tale of Three Splendid Canadian Fossils
Kirk Johnson is a geologist, paleobotanist, and the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on fossil plants and the extinction of the dinosaurs, an...
21 Mar 20221h 25min
Palaeontology Lecture Series — Spring 2022
2022 Palaeontology / Paleontology Lecture Series with all of you. Zoom Link: www.fossiltalksandfieldtrips.com SPRING 2022 Kicking off 2022 is Danna Staaf, the Cephalopodiatrist with Cephalopods are th...
12 Feb 20227min
