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Hans
The science of paleontology is going through an interval of “great dying.” In the past month or so, we have lost three giants of 20th century paleontology: Harry Whittington, Thomas Dutro, and Hans...
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Searching for Fossils in Manitoba’s Limestones
Ordovician brachiopods from Stony Mountain (photo © The Manitoba Museum) For the past couple of days, I have been scrambling to put together a presentation on fossil hunting in Manitoba’s limestones...
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Ghost Giants
La Galerie de paléontologie et d’anatomie comparée, Part 2 Overview of the fossil vertebrates on the second level A couple of months ago, I posted photos of the modern vertebrates at the Galerie de...
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Changing the Channel
How are political parties like cable television packages? This blog is generally about science and related ephemera. This morning, in the wake of the Conservative Party’s victory in Canada, my...
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Looking at Windows
Exchange District, Winnipeg (photo by Juliana Young) The past couple of weekends we have been installing the storm windows on our tall old house. As I pull them from the rack in the garage, I find...
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Cross-Platform
In the modern world, it seems to be increasingly common for “intellectual products” to pass from one medium to another. It has long been the case that books have been turned into films or plays, but...
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Late Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten in Manitoba
Fossils from the Airport Cove site, part 1: spectacular examples of dasycladalean green algae on bedding plane surfaces (The Manitoba Museum, MM B-339, B-340). Canada is remarkably rich in...
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After Burn
One interesting sidebar to our annual research trips to the Grand Rapids Uplands is that we have been able to observe the slow decay of dead trees and regeneration of vegetation following the massive...
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Medusa Hall
The painting of a medusa (labelled as “Toreuma bellagemma”) on the ceiling of Medusa Hall The Phyletisches Museum, Jena, Germany Several years ago, someone sent me a link to some photos of a museum in...
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Jelly Bloom at North Head
Grand Manan Island: July 12, 2015 Mid-July, and there were a tremendous localized bloom of jellies in the harbour at North Head. It didn’t seem to extend very far outside the harbour at that time (it...
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Ghost Streams on the Shore
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick: August, 2018 Beds of the Perry Formation in Pottery Cove, Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. Rocks are physical ghosts. If a ghost is a disembodied spirit or a nebulous image...
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