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Wood Buffalo National Park
Located in the north-central plains of Canada, the park covers 44,807 square kilometers and is home to the largest population of bison in North America. It is also a natural nesting site for whooping cranes. Another attraction of the park is the world's largest inland delta, located at the mouth of the Peace and Athabasca rivers.
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
These parks consist of impressive glaciers and high peaks, and are located on both sides of the border between Canada (Yukon and British Columbia) and the United States (Alaska). The spectacular natural landscape is home to many grizzly bears, caribou, and white bighorn sheep. The site contains the largest non-polar ice field in the world.
Mistaken Point
The fossil site is located at the southeastern tip of Newfoundland Island in eastern Canada. It consists of a 17-kilometer-long narrow, rugged coastal cliff. These cliffs originated from the deep sea and date back to the Ediacaran period (580 million to 560 million years ago), making them the oldest known collection of large fossils. The fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on Earth: the emergence of large, biologically complex organisms after nearly 3 billion years of evolution dominated by microorganisms.
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
Joggins Fossil Cliffs is a 689-hectare paleontological site located on the coast of Nova Scotia in eastern Canada, described as the "Galapagos of the Coal Age" for the abundance of fossils found during the Carboniferous Period (354 million to 290 million years ago). The rocks at the site are considered the landmarks of this period in Earth history, the world's thickest and most comprehensive record of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy (dating back to 318 million to 303 million years ago), and contain the most complete record of terrestrial fossils of the time. These include remains and footprints of early animals and the rainforests in which they lived, all left in situ and undisturbed. The site, with 14.7 km of sea cliffs, low cliffs, rock platforms, and beaches, consists of remains of three ecosystems: estuarine bays, floodplain rainforests, and fire-prone forested floodplains with freshwater pools. The site contains the richest known fossil assemblage of each of these three ecosystems, including 148 species of fossils from 96 genera and 20 footprint assemblages. The site is listed as an outstanding representation of the major stages of Earth history.
Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
Founded by Basque sailors in the 16th century on the shores of the Strait of Belle Isle at the northeastern tip of Canada, Red Bay is an archaeological site that provides the earliest, most complete and best-preserved testimony to Europe’s whaling tradition. Called Gran Baya by its founders in the 1530s, the station was the site of coastal hunting, butchering, extracting blubber for oil production and storing blubber. It became the main source of whale oil, which was shipped to Europe for lighting. The site was used during the summer months and includes remains of oil refineries, barrel making plants, docks, temporary shelters and cemeteries, as well as underwater shipwrecks and whale bone deposits. The station was in use for about 70 years before the local whale population was depleted.
Miguasha National Park
The paleontological site of Miguacha National Park, located on the south shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in southeastern Quebec, is considered the world's most outstanding representative of the Devonian period, known as the "Age of Fishes". The Upper Devonian Eskouminak Formation represented here dates back 370 million years and contains five of the six fossil fish communities associated with this period. Its importance stems from the discovery there of the largest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of sarcopterygians, the origin of the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates - tetrapods.
Anticosti
Located on Anticosti Island, the largest island in Quebec, this site contains the most complete and best-preserved paleontological record of the first mass extinction of animals (447-437 million years ago), and includes the best-preserved fossil record of marine life spanning 10 million years of Earth history. The number, variety and perfection of its fossils are unparalleled, allowing for world-class scientific research. Thousands of large sedimentary surfaces allow us to observe and study shells and some molluscs from the ancient tropical shallow seabed.
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
In 1932, Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta, Canada) and Glacier National Park (Montana, USA) merged to form the world's first International Peace Park. Located on the border of the two countries, the park is beautiful and has an extremely rich variety of plant and mammal species, with grasslands, forests, mountains and glaciers.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
In addition to exceptionally beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in the heart of Alberta's badlands, has yielded some of the most important fossils from the "Age of Reptiles," specifically about 35 species of dinosaurs dating back about 75 million years.