May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Mosura fentoni lived in what is now Canada during the Cambrian period, approximately 506 million years ago. Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni. Image...

Apr 14, 2025 by News Staff

Assigned to the new ichnospecies Ruopodosaurus clava, these dinosaur footprints found in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta confirm...

Apr 10, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists have extracted and analyzed 34 new mammoth (Mammuthus spp.) mitochondrial genomes, including two Early Pleistocene and nine Middle Pleistocene...

Feb 28, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described a new species of tiger swallowtail (genus Papilio) from eastern North America. Papilio solstitius: (a) male, holotype and...

Feb 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Palm trees of the tribe Trachycarpeae once thrived in what is now subarctic Canada, according to an analysis of fossilized phytoliths — microscopic...

Jan 28, 2025 by News Staff

Magma reservoirs beneath volcanoes along the Cascade Range arc vary in depth, size and complexity, but upper-crustal magma bodies are widespread, according...

Jan 24, 2025 by News Staff

In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According...

Jan 23, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Understanding food chains in ancient ecosystems is one of the goals of paleoecology. Direct evidence for these interactions is rare and includes fossils...

Oct 29, 2024 by News Staff

The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years. The...

Aug 23, 2024 by News Staff

Tardigrades are a diverse group of microscopic invertebrates widely known for their extreme survival capabilities. Molecular clocks suggest that tardigrades...

Jul 25, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Mandibulates are an example of evolutionary success, representing over half of all current species on Earth. Today, mandibulates are everywhere: from sea-dwelling...

Jul 11, 2024 by News Staff

In a new study, planetary scientists found strong similarities between soils found in Gale Crater on Mars and those of Canada’s Newfoundland, a cold...

May 16, 2024 by News Staff

To gather information on the animals’ habits, University of British Columbia’s Professor Andrew Trites and his colleagues used drone footage and biological...

Apr 29, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two new small-bodied pachycephalosaurines: one in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta and the...

Mar 21, 2024 by News Staff

Berries of the sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) grown in Canada showed promising health benefits induced by their rich and diverse polyphenolic profile...

Feb 8, 2024 by News Staff

The Sturtian ‘Snowball Earth’ glaciation (717 to 661 million years ago) is regarded as the most extreme interval of icehouse climate in Earth’s history....

Feb 5, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Sanfordiacaulis densifolia is an extinct tree species that existed between 359 and 347 million years ago (Carboniferous period) in what is now New Brunswick,...

Jan 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The earliest known evidence of photosynthetic structures has been identified inside a collection of the enigmatic cylindrical microfossils Navifusa majensis...

Dec 19, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found the fossil of a previously unknown species of leptoceratopsid dinosaur that lived more than 70 million years ago in what is...

Dec 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Canada have found a 75-million-year-old skeleton of a juvenile of the tyrannosaurid dinosaur Gorgosaurus libratus with the remains of...