Mike 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.

Researchers have formally identified a group of elasmosaur fossils - some of the most famous in North America. The marine ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...

Father-daughter team Michael and Heather Trask discover the fossilized bones of an ancient sea lizard near Courtenay, B.C., ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

This long-necked marine reptile lived around 85 million years ago. At 12 metres long, Traskasaura sandrae had strong, sharp ...

The name Traskasaura honors the Trask family who found the original fossil, while sandrae is in memory of Sandra Lee O’Keefe, ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the mystery behind a “very odd” long-necked sea monster found on the coast of Canada. The creature, which loosely resembles the infamous Loch Ness ...

It was capable of growing beyond 30 feet in length and weighed around 10 tons—a mature elephant plus a sedan car.

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...