A surprisingly sunny warm morning sparked a return trip to the Cretaceous/Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake.

If it walks like a duck and talks like it a duck....it may, in fact, be a chicken...

We sometimes group insects, animals and plants together because of superficially characteristics. Sometimes we nail it and the DNE supports our claim, but just as often as not, the "family"resemblance stops there.

Fossils and fireworks await those willing to make the trek to the fossil deposits of McAbee, just four hours north of Vancouver on the historic Gold Rush Trail.

A cool morning breeze keeps the mosquitoes down as we pack our kayaks and gear for today’s paddling journey. It is day four of our holiday, with two days driving up from Vancouver to Cache Creek, past the Eocene insect and plant site at McAbee, the well-bedded Permian limestone near Marble Canyon and onto Bowron Provincial Park, a geologic gem near the gold rush town of Barkerville.

"Yeeeehaaaaaw" the call heard from a lucky fossil hunter working the outcrops on the west side of the lake... or just as likely the call of the wild as a kayaker hits a pocket of wind on freshwater and feels the power of nature surge under them - ahhh Harrison!

If you like to try your hand at new things and have a penchant for the old or shiny.. no not your dating taste, but something earthier... you may want to consider a trip to Vermillion Bluffs near the town of Princeton, British Columbia.

Some 270 million plus years ago, had one wanted to buy waterfront property in what is now British Columbia, you’d be looking somewhere between Prince George and the Alberta border. The rest of the province had yet to arrive but would be made up of over twenty major terranes from around the Pacific.

New evidence of an ancient carnivorous killer has been found in Nigeria.

Sunshine, salt air, the bark of seals and... fossils await for those lucky enough to beach comb the fossiliferous shores near the town of Sooke on Vancouver Islands' southwestern edge. My cousins, Vivian and Spencer, had the chance to collect there recently and found a number these lovely marine fossils near the exposure at Muir Creek.

Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, location is the mantra for many of us in our macro world but it is also true for the world of the small and the domain of the wee blue-green algae.

In 2004, a scientific crew braced the cold and the odds to extract a sediment core from 400m below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean.

Slimeball… a derogative term to be sure, from the modern usage, but before it was ever dragged down to the world of insults and verbal nastiness we know it for today, the scum of which we speak and the small bacteria that form them were simply the catalysts for the many beautiful colours we see in hot springs.