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Conrad Daniel Mackenzie Wilson, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, Carleton University

A chance discovery of a 350 million-year-old fossil reveals a new type of ray-finned fish

An artist's rendition of the newly discovered fish, _Sphyragnathus tyche_. (C. Wilson), CC BY

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth. Sonja Wood, the museum’s owner, and Chris Mansky, the museum’s curator, found the fossil in a creek after Wood had a hunch.

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