Queen's Quay Whale Vertebra in Toronto, Ontario

The Royal Ontario Museum is one of the premier institutions in Canada, which often makes it a destination for local paleontological and archaeological finds. That includes a killer whale vertebra found underneath Queen's Quay and Bay Street, discovered during transit excavations in 1988. Unfortunately, the vertebra's origins are still up for debate to this day. The discovery was, at first, a cause for excitement since no post-glacial fossil remains had ever been found in the area. But the sediment near the whalebone showed traces of ragweed pollen, indicating the bone arrived after E

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