New Perspectives on the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Biota of N.L.: Palaeobiology, Palaeoecology and Geoconservation of a Candidate UNESCO Site

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, 7-9 p.m.
The Rooms, Bonaventure Street

Did you know that one of the oldest complex fossils in the world was found here on the Bonavista Peninsula in 2008? Memorial University’s Dr. Duncan McIlroy and University of Oxford’s Jack Matthews will tell you about this approximately 560-million-year-old amazing find and take you to the Connections Gallery to see the actual ancient specimen. They will also talk about their exciting new insights into how this group of organisms lived, when they evolved and why the went extinct.

 


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