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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

I was shocked when I saw skin cells that had been preserved for 183 million years,” explained Miguel Marx, a Ph.D. student at ...

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