natural history

Tangled

Kelp, by Bridget Lyons, is one of nine linoleum block prints made by hand and printed on a press at the Arts Benicia printmaking studio.

By Bridget A. Lyons

Fossils in Santa Cruz Mountains and Beaches

Wayne Thompson, paleontologist advisor for the Museum. Credit: Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.

Learn about the traces and remains of ancient creatures that regularly surface in Santa Cruz, and about the rock formations millions of years old that harbor them.