4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (392+ words) Winnipeg 25" C, Cloudy with wind These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters. This one, located up to 23, 000 feet (7 kilometers) below the surface of the southeastern Indian Ocean, spans the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (562+ words) Winnipeg 29" C, Windy The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic material it contained, revealing the scat can still smell just as fresh today as it did some 700, 000 years…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (402+ words) Winnipeg -17" C, Cloudy with wind BRANDON " A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify prehistoric barf that's nearly 290 million years old " and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit from a land-dwelling predator. Mark Mac Dougall, an assistant biology…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (402+ words) Winnipeg -17" C, Cloudy with wind BRANDON " A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify prehistoric barf that's nearly 290 million years old " and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit from a land-dwelling predator. Mark Mac Dougall, an assistant biology…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (636+ words) Winnipeg 13" C, Cloudy with wind CHARLOTTETOWN " An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever discovered " at an estimated 290 million years old. Patrick Brunet said he found…...