Learn why researchers identified some of North America's most famous fossils as Traskasaura sandrae.

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the mystery behind a “very odd” long-necked sea monster found on the coast of Canada. The creature, which loosely resembles the infamous Loch Ness ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour.

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live ...

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 ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of arthropods is understood. This new find, named Mosura fentoni, lived roughly ...

Visitors can get up close with towering creatures like the T. rex and Spinosaurus, ride dino-themed inflatables, and even dig ...