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
Nature Newfoundland and Labrador
Did you know that one of the oldest complex fossils in the world was found here on the Bonavista Peninsula in 2008? Memorial Universitys Dr. Duncan McIlroy and University of Oxfords 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.