| Bathurst Island Plant Fossils |
| More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian and Devonian periods, geological processes of plate tectonics slowly carried what is now Canada away from the Southern Hemisphere and across the equator. At that... |
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| British Columbia Eocene Fossils |
| Some 50 to 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene Epoch, British Columbia had a subtropical climate. In the interior from near Princeton north to Smithers, however, at an elevation of about 0.5-1.2 km, there... |
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| British Columbia's Dinosaur Excavations |
| Skeletal remains of DINOSAURS are an exceedingly rare resource in British Columbia, so much so that prior to 2002 there were only two reports of single dinosaurian skeletal elements from this province. This changed... |
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| Burgess Shale Fossils |
| Burgess Shale Fossils in YOHO NATIONAL PARK, BC, shows the beginnings of life in fossil-bearing rock formations. In 1909 PALAEONTOLOGIST Charles Doolittle Walcott, while searching for FOSSILS, accidentally and... |
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| Hilda Dinosaur Mega-Bonebed, Alberta |
| The Hilda mega-bonebed in southern Alberta is one of the largest DINOSAUR bonebeds in the world and the largest in Canada. It is made up of a group of at least 14 discontinuous bonebeds that occur in a mudstone... |