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Oct 2, 2020 10:15 am

*"CBU geology professor Ted Matheson and student Jessica MacIsaac examine the landscape near Creignish, where Matheson first spotted the fossilized tracks." (source: CBC). Photo credit: Jason Loxton*

Alumnus Dr. Edward Matheson, BSc'12, MSc'15, and his student from Cape Breton University, Jessica McIsaac, are part of a team that found a Carboniferous fossil trackway of a “crocodile-like swamp animal” in Cape Breton.

Read the article titled, "Fossilized tracks of rare 320-million-year-old animal found in Cape Breton" on the CBC website for all the exciting details!