An ancient tree that began its modern journey after falling out of a cliff in Nova Scotia is now on display in a new gallery in one of the busiest museums in the country.
After decades of preparation, the Dawn of Life gallery opened this month at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, bringing together a unique collection of fossils from UNESCO world heritage sites across the country.
One of those fossils is an irregular column discovered at the fossil cliffs at Joggins, N.S. It’s a fossilized tree that dates back to the Carboniferous era, when the cliffs that now line the Bay of Fundy were an
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