A pair of hands holds a prehistoric fossil cut from the rock

First Animals - Screening and Q&A

Over 500 million years ago there was an explosion of life in what is now known as British Columbia's Burgess Shale. Join renowned paleontologist Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron for a screening of the documentary First Animals and a question and answer period following the film. 

 

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About Dr Jean-Bernard Caron
Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum

Dr. Jean Bernard Caron is visiting Victoria and giving a public talk as part of the 14th British Columbia Paleontological Symposium. Dr Caron's research focuses primarily on the study of the first complex marine communities from the period just following the Early Cambrian.