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A team of international researchers from Canada, Colombia, and Germany has discovered a new marine reptile. The specimen, a stunningly preserved metre-long skull, is one of the last surviving ichthyosaurs – ancient animals that look eerily like livin

Ichthyosaurs were fast creatures that preyed on small fish. But a recently discovered skull suggests the species was able to eat large prey.

A new 130-million-year-old fossil "shakes up the evolutionary tree" of ichthyosaurs, which were ancient animals that look eerily like living swordfish.

A new 130-million-year-old marine reptile fossil sheds light on the evolution of hypercarnivory of these last-surviving ichthyosaurs.

A team of international researchers from Canada, Colombia, and Germany has discovered a new marine reptile. The specimen, a stunningly preserved

Scientists have found an extremely rare fossil in Canada that is of an entirely new invertebrate species. This fossil is so significant that it has provided experts with very important information regarding the origins of multicellular animals. This newly identified fossil dates back to 375 million years ago during the Late Devonian Period. And it... Read more »

A group of scientists has identified a new invertebrate species from a rare fossil found in Gaspésie’s Miguasha National Park. They say the discovery gives clues about where complex life forms originated.

Beneath India's skies, abounding in the beauty they searched for, a globe-circling party of bird watchers led by the author sweltered in blowtorch heat, explored teeming cities, probed a troubled paradise and, amidst the moving legacy of past splendor and present hardship, pondered the question

A McGill phonebooth and the largest art heist in Canadian history The story of the “Skylight Capers” and the 1972 robbery of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum Alexandre Hinton, Multimedia Editor An ill-omened spirit fell over Montreal in the early morning hours of September 4, 1972. The city was in a state of despair as the public mourned the loss of 37 Wagon Wheel club-goers in an atrocious fire. Few celebrated the Montreal Expos victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The top song on the Canadi...

American crocodiles are found in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Neotropics but they arrived in the Pacific before Panama existed during the Ice Age.