What makes Burgess Shale fossils so special?   The fossils are so well preserved that many of their soft tissue remain visible. We can see eyeballs, guts and (in some cases) even their last dinner!   Learn more: bit.ly/3i6BaAr

Just published in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 📣 The Ediacaran–Cambrian Chapel Island Formation of Newfoundland, Canada: evaluating the impact of outcrop quality on trace-fossil data sets at the Cambrian GSSP and less-explored sections USask Geological Sciences Research@Queen's University

We're hiring a camp coordinator to develop and run new camps for the museum! artsandscience.usask.ca/museumofnatura…

Tyndall stone, the distinctive stone that covers most U of Saskatchewan buildings, has been given a global heritage designation. USask Geological Sciences Prof. Brian Pratt co-led the nomination. cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

Three Ichnoplanet students at the University of Saskatchewan receive awards from the International Association of Sedimentologists! ichnoplanet.ca/2023/01/26/thr… International Association of Sedimentologists IAS USask Geological Sciences #sedimentology #ichnoplanet

The Ediacaran–Cambrian Chapel Island Formation of Newfoundland, Canada: evaluating the impact of outcrop quality on trace-fossil data sets at the Cambrian GSSP and less-explored sections buff.ly/3XK50KR USask Geological Sciences Research@Queen's University #fossils #ichnology

.USask Geological Sciences faculty member Brian Pratt led the nomination process for the Tyndall Stone—a recognizable feature of many USask campus buildings—to be recognized as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/…

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The Tyndall Stone preserves a diverse assemblage of Paleozoic marine organisms including nautiloids, sponges and corals! Come visit the museum, and see what you can find!

This week, we celebrated research in the College of Arts and Science and the people who make it happen. #USaskResearch artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/…

According to the 2023 QS Ranking, U of Saskatchewan among top 10 universities in Canada for "geology" subject area.

Research by Dr. Matthew Lindsay (@mbjlindsay) and his group, including Dr. Elliott Skierszkan (Banting PDF) and Matt Fellwock (MSc Student) featured in this year's USask Arts and Science research celebration. #geochemistry #groundwater #permafrost

#FossilFriday announcement! University of Alberta vertebrate palaeontologist Dr. Philip Currie will be giving a public seminar USask Geological Sciences on March 29th at 1PM (CST). He’ll be talking about his fieldwork looking for late Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert!

Dinosaur talk alert! Exciting talk next week from Dr. Philip Currie on late Cretaceous #dinosaurs.

#NewPaper 🚨 Systematics and biostratigraphy of a new trilobite fauna collected from the subsurface Earlie Formation (Wuliuan Stage, Miaolingian Series, Cambrian) in southwestern Saskatchewan Via Handkamer and USask Geological Sciences colleagues ➡️ cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #FossilFriday

Congratulations to USask Geological Sciences Prof. Gabriela Mángano, one of the first Canadians named to Argentina's national science academy! #USaskResearch U of Saskatchewan artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/…

"Understanding the Precambrian" Special Issue | Romain Gougeon USask Geological Sciences et al. report new ichnologic and sedimentologic data sets of the Ediacaran–Cambrian Chapel Island Formation Newfoundland, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/3XVa5Rj

Welcome to the department!

Big reveal a few months in the making! If you stop by the USask Museum of Natural Sciences in the USask Geological Sciences building, you’ll see new signage accompanying the dinosaurs in the lobby…. with paleoart created by yours truly!

It's a neat discovery by University of Saskatchewan students Kaitlin and Jack who are doing palaeontology research with us. While searching for crocodile fossils near Estevan, they found amber in one of the coal seams.