Tagged With "fossils"

Geologists are our friends.

Gumbo was visiting the fossil rich deposits of the Burgess Shale. These are at a newly discovered site in the Stanley Glacier basin of Kootenay National Park.

Here are some pictures I took during a recent visit to Dinosaur Provincial Park, which is located about a 3 hour drive east of Calgary, near the town of Brooks.  Arriving at the park is like stepping into another world.  It is said that the...

  Gumbo was exploring a remote region of northwestern Colorado, extending into eastern Utah.  This is Green River country, the river winding through memorable rock formations and desert landscapes.  But the real treasure of the region...

The Museum of the Earth! A big name for a fairly small institution, but the name really reflects its topic rather than any huge ambition. Its task is big enough: to tell the story of life on earth through fossils. And it has the fossils to do it: with...

Copenhagen, which is working on a goal of being CO2-neutral by 2025, has decided to remove its municipal funds from fossil-fuel industries.

Oregon's newest Scenic Bikeway is in an area of beautiful colors and geological history. It adds 130 miles to Oregon's 1000-mile bikeway system.

DrFumblefinger spends a day in Drumheller with some visitors, and shares photos of some of what they saw.

Add that to my wish list!

DrFumblefinger visits an interesting small town museum which is proud of being the location of the first dinosaur nesting site discovered in Canada.

DrFumblefinger concludes his two-part series on a visit to Petrified Forest National Park with a close-up look at the thousands of fossilized trees you'll see on your visit.

In the center of Addis Ababa is the Ethiopian National Museum .  It's supposed to be constructed as an Italian villa, although I am not so sure I see that.  Although it has been around for decades (1930’s), it was in the...

 The oldest known organisms that still live on the planet are stromatolites, rock-like structures built by an algae known as cyanobacteria.  Stromatolites have an extensive fossil record in Western Australia dating back some 3.5 million...

 Yoho National Park is one of four National Parks in the Canadian Rockies.  Yoho seems a bit of an odd name but it’s very appropriate.  To the Cree people Yoho meant “Awe and Wonder”.