This word is used by local people in Ocracoke the crowds of tourists and other visitors. D.G. Martin, a retired lawyer, served as UNC-System’s vice president for public affairs and hosted PBS-NC ...

The fossils of Traskasaura sandrae were first discovered in 1988 along the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, Canada, by Michael and Heather Trask. In honor of their contribution ...

They have named Traskasaura in honour of Courtenay, B.C., based Michael and Heather Trask, who discovered the original holotype specimen along the banks of the Puntledge river in 1988, and the Greek ...

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Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour. Heather Trask ...

Researchers named the new type of plesiosaur Traskasaura, in honor of Michael and Heather Trask, who discovered the original specimen in 1988, and the Greek word sauros, meaning lizard.

Michael and Heather Trask were the first to find remains of an elasmosaur west of the Canadian Rockies when they discovered the fossils along the Puntledge River in 1988. Viewed as "odd" by ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine ...

Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour. He was 69. Heather Trask ...

The pair he’s referring to are his twin brother and niece, Mike and Heather Trask, who in 1988 discovered fossils in the Puntledge River that turned out to be the bones of an elasmosaur ...