We stopped at the Joggins fossil cliffs to see fossils. These are from well before the dinosaurs. Before even the big mammal-like reptiles like dimetrodon. They mostly only had big amphibians like this guy.
Look at his skin and his little teeth!
And some random bones, because most fossils unfortunately aren’t cute.
They also have tons of weird footprints.
They have a really weird shape.
These ones are even weirder though. They come from a giant millipede that could grow up to 2m long. Kerri and Matt are only 1.8m long.
Then we went out onto the actual cliffs to find our own fossils. Because the cliffs face the tides of the bay of Fundy there is a lot of erosion every day. So most of these have never been seen before. But they are almost all plants.
Random bits of trees tucked between the rocks.
Or tree-sized giant horsetails anyway.
This might have been something.
This was definitely once something, but we have no idea what.
This was a giant tree like thing except that it’s actually related to the clubmosses.
Which are not giant tree-like things but tiny mossy things. The past was weird.
This was also something.
This was the base of another giant tree-like thing. Most of the reptiles and amphibians have been found inside of these, where they had burrows.
This might have been a thing.
This is more giant club-moss bark-like outside thing.
This is a maze, to demonstrate how some species go extinct and others make it. Kerri went extinct on her first try.
But because Matt refused to participate Kerri got two tries. Because that’s how extinction works. And the second time she made it to the middle without going extinct.
