Love the Wild: Koala Bears / Marsupials
Koala, Phasscolarctos cinereus, are truly adorable marsupials native to Australia. These cuddly "teddy bears" are not bears at all. Koalas belong to a group of mammals known as marsupials. Fossil rema...
13 Feb 20217min
Furry, Fuzzy, Polar, Panda — Bears: Ursidae
Bears are one of my favourite mammals. Had they evolved in a slightly different way, we might well have chosen them as pets instead of the dogs so many of us have in our lives today. For them and for ...
5 Feb 20216min
Fossil Field Trip to Sooke
The upper Oligocene Sooke Formation that outcrops on southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia is a wonderful place to collect and especially good for families. As well as amazing west coast sce...
31 Jan 202110min
Rene Savenye: Friendship & Fossil Bees
This is a tale of friendship, tragic loss and fossil bees — and an introduction to one of the most delightful paleo enthusiasts to ever walk the planet — Rene Savenye. Rene and I enjoyed many years of...
28 Jan 20217min
Geologic Time & the Periodic Table
Part of our ability to date the rock sequences we see in the world and determine which are older and which younger has to do with simple observation. We see that older rocks contain trilobites and a w...
13 Jan 20216min
The Map that Changed the World
Our World has shifted dramatically over time. Our great land masses and oceans have moved, grown, shrunk, come together and pulled apart over the Earth's history. It is the fossils that have helped sh...
12 Jan 20218min
Dinosaur Hunting: Alberta Fossil Field Trip
Alberta is a gorgeous province in western Canada that borders British Columbia & Saskatchewan. Here you can see the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains, Beautiful Wildlife & the Badlands with their Dino...
10 Jan 20219min
Fossils Deep in the North Sea
Brown Bank in the North Sea is a treasure trove of Miocene and Pleistocene Fossil Mammal material. It is also a great place to unearth archaeological remains. Until sea levels rose at the end of the l...
4 Jan 20219min
