Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Nick Longrich from the University of Bath, UK, has described two new species of chasmosaurine dinosaurs that roamed the ‘lost island continent’...

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr Martin Brasier of the University of Oxford and the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dr Alexander Liu of the University of Cambridge...

Aug 4, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Joanne Whittaker of the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Australia’s...

Jul 9, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains of two previously unknown mammals that lived in what is now British Columbia in Canada during the early...

Jun 18, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from Canada and the United States has discovered a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the...

Jun 17, 2014 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Canada has announced the discovery of the Earth’s highest latitude perennial spring, located in the polar desert of the Canadian...

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

Several fossil specimens of a Cambrian fish called Metaspriggina walcotti recently discovered in Canada shed new light on the development of the earliest...

May 8, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from Alberta Geological Survey and the University of Alberta have discovered an 8 km wide bowl-shaped impact crater near Bow City in southern...

Dec 19, 2013 by News Staff

A unique fossil of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus regalis shows for the first time that those dinosaurs’ heads were adorned with a fleshy...

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to geologists led by Dr Antonio Simonetti from the University of Notre Dame, a detailed analysis of calcite-rich minerals from the 120-million-year-old...

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Radiocarbon dating of ancient moss clumps on Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic suggests that local summer temperatures during the past 100 years...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

May 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

University of Alberta researchers led by Dr Catherine La Farge have brought back to life 400 year old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in...

May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have described a new species of dinosaur named Albertadromeus syntarsus, the smallest herbivorous dinosaur...

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...

May 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists, reporting in the journal Nature Communications, have identified a new species of bone-headed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 85...

Mar 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

Nov 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur has been identified by U.S. and Canadian paleontologists from fossils originally collected in 1958. An artist’s...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...

Sep 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...