New study validates SFU prof's long campaign to protect fossil beds

Simon Fraser University scientist Bruce Archibald struggled for decades to persuade the provincial government it should protect fossil beds near Cache Creek from commercial developments that included a proposal they be quarried for cat litter.
The government finally listened and designated it a heritage site. Insect specimens excavated from the McAbee Shales confirm the accuracy of Archibald’s case in a ground-breaking new study that pushes back the time at which ancient species began to d