The Earthquake Dinosaurs research site is located along the northern shore of the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy. The highest tides in the world occur just down the beach, and the local +11m tides result in rapid erosion of the sandstone cliffs. Looking back at photographs from eleven years ago shows how much the cliff… Continue reading 11 Years of Erosion
Baby dinosaur vertebra
One of the most interesting bone fragments recovered from the Jurassic lake shoreline sediment samples collected in 2008 is a small cervical (neck) vertebra. The tiny neck vertebra is as long as your finger is wide. The entire animal would have been small – an annual hatchling perhaps that was approximately 35 cm in length… Continue reading Baby dinosaur vertebra
Birth of the Bay of Fundy
Today, the Minas Basin in the Bay of Fundy holds the record for the highest tides in the world. Also, the oldest dinosaurs in Canada are found along the shores of the Minas Basin. But the history of the Bay of Fundy relates to the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea 200 million years ago. The… Continue reading Birth of the Bay of Fundy