3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (120+ words) CBC Dinosaur discoveries draw visitors to Tumbler Ridge geological park CBC British Columbia is on the hunt for B.C.'s best roadside attraction. There are plenty of quirky, fantastic and spectacular spots in this province. Matt Preprost reports on the UNESCO…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (638+ words) Meet Gus, the T. rex skeleton that just sold for $50M US A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest and most complete specimens sold for a record $50.1 million US (around $70.5 million Cdn) Tuesday to a mystery bidder. Sotheby's…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) CBC Rising Ethical Concerns as Dinosaur Fossils Outpace Art at Global Auctions Adolfo Cuetara, Executive Director of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, speaks with host Bruce Ladan about the growing trend of private fossil sales and why the commercialization of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (500+ words) What's got sharp teeth, an extremely long neck and is now on display in southern Manitoba? The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden unveiled its new Styxosaurus exhibit on Friday, showing off large reconstructions of the long-neck plesiosaur that once…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (131+ words) CBC Meet the world's most complete and 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (476+ words) Gold miners working in the Yukon regularly find ancient ground squirrel burrows throughout the permafrost, many containing fossilized feces. Researchers analyzing these well-preserved poop piles found they contain some of the oldest DNA ever recovered, dating from 30,000 to 700,000 years ago....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (298+ words) Tucked into permafrost on Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin land in the Yukon, ancient archivists unintentionally preserved a treasure trove of information. The source of this information is just as remarkable as what scientists can do with it. The CBC's Meghan Roberts spoke…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 8+ hour 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…...