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Marble Table

Wandering through the Earth galleries at the Natural History Museum a few years ago, I came upon this splendid marble table. The intricate inlay work highlights a range of mid-Paleozoic fossils:...

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Tackling the Ctenophores

The modern ctenophore Mertensia ovum (NOAA photograph) For the past decade or so, my colleagues and I have been working to make sense of the fossils we are collecting from the William Lake site in...

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Index Trace Fossils of the Anthropocene

When I visit a city, I suspect that I sometimes look quite eccentric. Although I take in the usual tourist sites, I can also often be seen with my nose close to the wall of a stone building, or...

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Guidebook: The Ordovician-Silurian Boundary in the Williston Basin

The field trip group visits roadcut exposure of the famous t-marker, in the Grand Rapids Uplands. The t-marker (mostly represented by the red layer in this image) is associated with the HICE...

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What You See is What You Get. Sometimes.

Norm Aime examines a large dead example of Cyanea capillata (the lion’s mane jellyfish) on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. (photo © Dave Rudkin, Royal Ontario Museum) It is a common...

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Beasts in the Walls

Relief Sculptures at the Natural History Museum, London When I was a boy in the 1960s, I was very fortunate that my family spent a year living in London. We visited the museums in South Kensington many...

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Palaeocasting Call

I realize that I have been very lax about posting here in the past month or so. I have been on the road a good bit lately (more on this soon), and when I have been around in Winnipeg I seem to have...

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Catacombs

Catacomb.—An underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans. (Oxford Dictionary) Like sedimentary strata that record long-gone...

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Dead in a Ditch

Silurian Stromatolites in the Grand Rapids Uplands When this photo was taken in 2007 the appearance of the burn was more dramatic than it is today. On the long drive northward from Winnipeg to Grand...

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I haven’t been around here much lately because . . .

. . .  we have been very busy at the Museum for the past few months, and much of this busy-ness has been associated with preparing exhibits about a spectacular Cretaceous pliosaur (plesiosaur) skull...

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