How a Comox Valley fossil discovery forever changed paleontology in B.C.

How a Comox Valley fossil discovery forever changed paleontology in B.C.

In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped into the living room of a man named Mike Trask following a report of an interesting fossil find on the Puntledge River.

Comox Valley Fossil: BC Paleontology’s Landmark Discovery

The unassuming living room of a Courtenay, B.C. resident in 1988 became the unlikely epicenter of a paleontological revolution. What began as a casual fossil