5+ hour, 52+ min ago  (787+ words) Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic during the last ice age using DNA found in frozen squirrel poop from the Yukon. "We were able to…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago  (126+ words) Animal, plant, fungal DNA in squirrel latrine paints picture of Arctic grasslands in Age of Mammoths Caption: An artist's reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (301+ words) A grad student working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York discovered the remains of a gigantic sea monster that didn't quite fit in among the other fossils. This newly described mosasaur, named Tylosaurus rex or the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (434+ words) Things are getting prehistoric at The Exploration Place in Prince George. The city's museum and science centre has been taken over by ancient creatures as it hosts Dinosaurs of B. C. , a travelling exhibit from the Royal B. C. Museum. Front and centre in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (92+ words) Limb length analysis used to determine the 'cheetah' of dinosaurs Image | limb press Caption: University of Alberta doctoral candidate Scott Persons measured the limb length for 53 different species of carnivorous dinosaurs to create an equation to score how much each…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (103+ words) Kevin Cormier removed significant books worth $60 K, says former employee who found some at Value Village Image | Kevin Cormier, executive director, New Brunswick Public Library Service Caption: Kevin Cormier, appointed executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service last…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (725+ words) Monstrous octopuses the size of modern whales prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B. C. and Japan suggest." Like mythical, tentacled sea monsters such as the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (199+ words) Prince Edward Island is rich with fossils from the Permian period, roughly 290 million years ago. A lot of the known specimens in the province are discovered by children, making the third annual Fossil Day in Charlottetown that much more important…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (659+ words) Prince Edward Island may soon be known for more than Anne of Green Gables, beaches and potatoes " a Nova Scotia-based geologist says the province is emerging as a promising new frontier for fossil discoveries. John Calder, a geoscientist under contract…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (191+ words) Report finds beloved Alberta T. rex tourist draw has issues but far from extinct'CBC Report finds beloved Alberta T. rex tourist draw has issues but far from extinct Cost to fix and maintain giant dino estimated in hundreds of thousands Image | Alta-Drumheller-Dinosaur…...