Dinosaurs and cowboys don’t necessarily cross paths in the popular imagination, but they have always shared territory in ...

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

The name Traskasaura honors the Trask family who found the original fossil, while sandrae is in memory of Sandra Lee O’Keefe, ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

A newly identified sea monster from British Columbia is rewriting marine reptile history and stunning scientists worldwide.

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 ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

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

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

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