Citizen paleotologists help fill in 50-million-year-old blanks in B.C.'s history

A relative of the long-extinct bird species Songziidae perished about 50 million years ago, its remains embedded in the rock of northwestern B.C. until 1970.
It would then spend several decades in Germany.
The rare fossil is now nestled in the Royal British Columbia Museum and written into the scientific literature thanks to the efforts of SFU paleo-entomologist Bruce Archibald, an expert on ancient bugs.
The fossil was originally found in Driftwood Canyon by the late Margaret Klockner, a German