Fossils
Fossil collectors have found Ammonite and Baculite fossils at Boulder Point on Hornby Island. A new species of pterosaur (flying reptile) called Gwawinapterus beardi was identified based on a fossil found on a beach on Hornby Island.
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“You can hardly convince a man of an error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be. The geologists tell us that it took one hundred years to prove that fossils are organic, and one hundred and fifty more to prove that they are not to be referred to the Noachian deluge.”
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