Cascade Mountain and Big Baldy

 

Mountain wildlife: old and new

 Trilobite from Cascade Mountain, above the 10,000 foot level.

Rattlesnake on Squaw Peak Road.

Carolina Wolf Spider

Leopard Frog

Tadpole Shrimp (Notostraca)

I caught this in Kimball, Idaho, in an irrigation ditch.  I had to look up what this was, craziest thing I've ever seen.  Turns out to be a kind of shrimp.

Here's its shrimp tail, a little too small to cook up though.

Alaska [Cruise] Wildlife

 There were lots of these little diving birds.

 Hey, we have these back home.

 What do you think, Bald Eagle?

 Two Harbor Seals

A king Samon.

And Surf Scoters.

An unidentified, but rather creepy, spider.

Fossil Sponge

I'm no expert, but I think this is a sponge, like the one below.