A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

In Yoho National Park, fossilized sea creatures are found in the Burgess Shale Formation, a layer of rock dating back to the mid-Cambrian period. Paleontologists excavating the formation found 60 ...

"It is a single community of a single species of animal from a snapshot in time," professor Emily Bamforth said.

Hidden away in an area of Waterton Lakes National Park, little greyish brown butterflies are now being recognized as a new species known as Satyrium curiosolus, or the curiously isolated hairstreak.

The bones all belong to the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a horned dinosaur characterized by a thick bump on its nose. Over eight thousand bones of this single species have been discovered at the site, ...

Jackie Hildering with the Marine Education and Research Society is among the researchers on-site, and said this is the only ...

A pair of endangered right whales that wandered into Gulf of America/Mexico this winter made it to Gulf of St. Lawrence in a little over a month.

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ... Previously the earliest known reptile footprints, found in Canada, were dated to 318 million years ago.

Carbon cycling, which explores how carbon moves in and out of our atmosphere, has been a longtime fascination for Memorial ...