Earth and Environment - Paleontology

UCalgary paleontologists capture public’s imagination with dinosaur discoveries

Paleontology - Earth Sciences

The science of dinosaurs has everyone - from students to Slash from Guns N' Roses - wanting to learn more about Earth's prehistoric population On the main floor of the Earth Sciences building at the University of Calgary, across from the Gallagher Library, sits an empty display case.

Mammoth tooth reveals secrets of Ice Age life in northeastern Canada

Paleontology - Earth Sciences

Study of a 19th-century fossil reveals that woolly mammoths once lived much further east than previously thought.

New, tiny prehistoric fish species unlocks origins of catfish and carp

Paleontology - Physics

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras, which today account for two-thirds of all freshwater species.