Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Joggins Fossil Centre's Annual Holiday Sale

Join us at the Joggins Fossil Centre on December 9th between 4pm and 8pm for our Annual Holiday Sale. What a great way to finish (or start!) your shopping with up to 50% off selected items from our Gift Shop. The Roundhouse Cafe will also be serving complimentary hot chocolate and baked goods so grab a warm drink, have a bite to eat and find that special someone the perfect gift at the Joggins Fossil Centre.



































Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is in the News!

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is in the news! British and Canadian scientists studying 300 million year old Carboniferous fossils from Joggins, Horton Bluff, Sydney and Europe have concluded that a sudden, global warming-driven breakdown of rainforests actually helped propel the Earth's earliest reptiles, like Hylonomus lyelli which Joggins is famous for, to the top of the era's evolutionary hierarchy. Click here to view the complete article.

Former Joggins Fossil Centre Interpreter Receives Award

Congratulations to Afiqah Mohamad Radzi for winning the Imperial Oil Best Poster Award at the 60th Annual Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) held recently at Acadia University. Afiqah is an honours geology student at Acadia and she won the prize for her poster on her honours thesis research entitled "Petrography of stratigraphic units in the subsurface in the Phetchabun Basin, Thailand”. Before returning to school this year, Afiqah spent her summer with us working as an interpreter. Way to go, Afiqah and keep up the good work!