BELFAST, PEI. – A student paleontologist from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax has made what appears to be a historic discovery at a golf course on Prince Edward Island.
Matt Stimson was walking with a friend on the shores of the Belfast Highland Greens golf course recently when he came upon evidence of fossil footprints.
He says they could date back 290 million years, just around the time Prince Edward Island would have been formed.
Stimson had been reading journals on prehistoric findings in the Point Prim area when he took a slight detour down to the golf course.
After getting permission to cross the course and walk along the beach to explore the local geology, Stimson and another student stumbled on a rock that appears to have ancient footprints embedded into it.
He’s not sure what animal left the tracks but he believes they were left during the pre-dinosaur era.
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