2024 Fossil Lecture Series & British Columbia’s New Provincial Fossil
In this episode, you'll hear about some wonderful free Zoom Fossil Talks in March and May 2024. There is no need to register. You can head on over to www.fossiltalksandfieldtrips.com and note the talk...
21 Mars 20247min
Dr. Victoria Arbour — Royal BC Museum Fieldwork at the Carbon Creek Basin Dinosaur Tracksite
Victoria is a vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist and is the leading expert on the palaeobiology of the armoured dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs. She has named several new species of ...
19 Nov 202336min
Vancouver Island Mosasaur
Vancouver Island holds many wonderful fossils and incredible folk excited to explore them. The Dove Creek Mosasaur, which includes the teeth and lower jawbone of a large marine reptile was discovered ...
30 Maj 202311min
A Taste for Studies: Tortoise Urine, Armadillos, Fried Tarantula & Goat Eyeballs
A Taste for Studies: Tortoise Urine, Armadillos, Fried Tarantula & Goat Eyeballs While eating study specimens is not in vogue today, it was once common practice for researchers in the 1700-1880s. Cha...
26 Mars 20236min
Predators and Prey in Devonian Seas
Predators and Prey in our Devonian Seas. It is here we see the first tetrapods — land-living vertebrates — appeared during the Devonian, as did the first terrestrial arthropods, including wingless ins...
25 Mars 202312min
Earth’s First Four-Legged, Air-Breathing Vertebrates
In the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrates — took an unexpected leap forward. The evolutionary a'ha came from a single pa...
24 Mars 202313min
North America’s Rocky Mountain Trench
North America's Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains. This massive rift va...
30 Jan 20236min
Oh, Shiny! Pyritized Fossils
We sometimes find fossils preserved by pyrite. They are prized as much for their pleasing gold colouring as for their scientific value as windows into the past. If you have pyrite specimens and want t...
11 Nov 20223min
