Aug 11, 2025
Paleontologist Jordan Mallon helped identify a new animal species 109 years after a man discovered a fossil fishing near Fernie, B.C. The fo
An ichthyosaur fossil discovered near Fernie, B.C., which has been sitting in an Ottawa museum for more than a century, was recently identified as a new species by a team of scientists. The Fernatator prenticei is a marine predator that looked similar to a dolphin, existed about 250 million years ago, and went extinct before the dinosaurs did 66 million years ago. The fossil was originally discovered by Tom Prentice in 1916 when he was fishing in the Elk River, around 12 kilometres south of Fernie, which is about 940 kilometres east of Vancouver.
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