The heavy equipment operator is Ottawa's best amateur fossil hunter, and his finds have given scientists new insights into the long-lost sea that once stretched from Pembroke to Quebec City.
Beluga and bowhead whales, ringed seals, fish and seabirds explored the sea, which formed about 12,500 years ago when water from the Atlantic rushed into the depression of land left by the area’s retreating glaciers. It all disappeared 3,000 years later as the land rebounded and the water drained.
Some of his early expeditions were perilous. He would sink hip-deep into the muck and have to lie flat on the surface in his wetsuit to escape. Many of the best hunting sites – places where landslides fell into creeks and streams – could only be reached by bushwacking and kayak. He also experimented with new preparation methods and found that soaking the concretions and deep freezing them helped promote their safecracking. He would examine them under intense light in search of hairline fractures to exploit.FINCH, ON. MAY 30, 2023. – Breaking open the rocks often reveals fossils dating back hundreds of millions of years old.Some of the more complicated shapes could take days of painstaking work to unlock.
Neville found the fossilized remains of a murre, a penguin-like seabird that is today common along the coasts of the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans.
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