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Father-daughter team Michael and Heather Trask discover the fossilized bones of an ancient sea lizard near Courtenay, B.C., ...
A new genus of sea monster has just been officially identified, and it’s a palaeontological weirdo. The new species has been ...
Plesiosaur fossils have been known for decades in British Columbia. However, the identity of the animal that left the fossils ...
A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...
In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...
Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.
It turns out that preservation of these structures is widespread, confirming the ancient origin of this type of circulatory ...
Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.
This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...
Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world.
A three-eyed prehistoric sea monster known as Mosura fentoni was recently discovered in Canada and lived in the world's ...