Ancient Coast Salish war club discovered in Vancouver Island man’s backyard Mark Lake found a little piece of history in his backyard while cleaning up after a storm last April. Lake, of Gartley Point near the seaside village of Royston in Vancouver Island, came across an interesting piece of wood sticking out from under his maple tree — …

Armored Dinosaur’s Last Meal Found Preserved in Its Fossilized Belly More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armour-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what is now northern Alberta. This ancient beast then sank onto its thorny back, churning up mud in the seabed that entombed …

Mammoths Survived in Canada Until 5,000 Years Ago Ancient 30,000-year-old DNA of past environments found in permafrost from Yukon, Canada reveals woolly mammoths roamed the region as recently as 5,000 years ago. The discovery was made by scientists at McMaster University, who built on its previous research that speculated the mᴀssive animals died out 9,700 …

Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings …

While feeding bison, a man discovers a rare 1,000-year-old rock carving by accident An archaeologist has discovered rock carvings dating back over 1,000 years at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatchewan, Canada. What makes the discovery even more remarkable is that it happened completely by accident. Wanuskewin’s chief archaeologist, Ernie Walker, made the discovery in the summer …

Archeological dig in Newfoundland unearths what could be Canada’s oldest English coin Archaeologists in Newfoundland have unearthed what may be the oldest English coin ever found in Canada—and perhaps North America. Working at the site of a former English colony, the team dug up a rare two-penny piece that was minted more than 520 years …

Eerie Lake Erie is home to a giant ship graveyard: Nearly 2,500 sunken vessels Lurking below the surface of Lake Erie is a ship graveyard that is estimated to include up to 2,500 vessels, with the earliest wreck dating to the 1800s when it was part of the water route from the Atlantic Ocean to …

Wreck of US ship that hunted Nazi spies in the Arctic finally discovered Live Science reports that the wreckage of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear has been found in Canadian waters by the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other researcher groups. The Bear has a storied history: It …

‘Hellboy’ horned dinosaur species discovered in Canada The prehistoric creature, named Regaliceratops peterhewsi, is a close relative of the familiar Triceratops and belongs to Ceratopsidae, a group of large-bodied, plant-eating dinosaurs that evolved in the Cretaceous period and were largely restricted to western North America. Ceratopsid dinosaurs are divided into two subgroups: chasmosaurines, which include Triceratops and the …