Ediacaran Fossils Podcast

Guy Narbonne is a paleontologist at Queen’s University in Ontario.Here he’s inspecting a fossil of the oldest and largest multi-cellular animal on Earth.The Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is filled with half a billion-year-old treasures like this one.

When the cod fishery collapsed in Newfoundland in the early 1990s, the hopes of the local fish harvesters collapsed with it. Hundreds of Newfoundlanders moved away and businesses that depended on the cod fishery closed. But retired schoolteacher Kit Ward of Portugal Cove South wasn’t content to watch her community vanish with the cod. She and some friends teamed up to find a solution that was right under their feet, in the reddish rocks of Mistaken Point. Photo Credit: Ari Daniel Shapiro

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