Tea and Science: New fossil insects and plants from northern Labrador

Une conférence présenté / a special presentation: 

By Alexandre Demers-Potvin (M. Sc. candidate, Hans Larsson Lab, Redpath Museum) and Noemie Sheppard (President, Redpath Museum Society)

Join us to carry on a tradition first started by the Museum's Founder: Sir William Dawson, to share new paleontological findings, the real fossils, and a cup of tea. 

This summer, plant and insect fossils from the Cretaceous period were found in an abandoned open-pit mine near Schefferville, on the border between Québec and Labrador. They were collected in an expedition jointly led by Alexandre Demers-Potvin, of the Redpath Museum, and Mario Cournoyer, of the Musée de paléontologie et de l’évolution, in an attempt to reconstruct an extinct lake ecosystem surrounded by a broad-leafed forest at the time of the dinosaurs. The afternoon of November 4 will be a rare occasion for the public to examine some of these fossils and to share in the adventure of the expedition. 

The presentation will be bilingual. 

Everyone welcome. 

RSVP: redpath.museum [at] mcgill.ca