5+ hour, 31+ min ago  (59+ words) Castanet Best preserved T Rex Calgary's Telus Spark Science Centre says its latest dinosaur exhibit, featuring SUE, transports people back 67 million years. At 40 feet long and 13 feet tall, Spark officials say SUE is the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (279+ words) A researcher in British Columbia recently discovered that ancient squirrel scat can still smell just as fresh today as it did some 700, 000 years ago. Tyler Murchie, a scientist with the Hakai Institute, says the dung preserved by permafrost and collected…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1611+ words) In late autumn of 1988, Richard Hebda, then head of botany at the Royal B. C. Museum, stepped into the living room of a Courtenay man named Mike Trask, following up on a report of an interesting fossil find on the Puntledge River....