The Beaty Biodiversity Museum’s fossil collection contains over 20,000 specimens, ranging from recent shells to 500 million year old blue-green algal fossils, called stromatolites, which are the oldest evidence of life on earth. The Museum houses a modest collection from the famous Burgess Shale, in Eastern BC, alongside specimens from localities all over the globe.

The Collection is currently being recatalogued and entered into a searchable
database in preparation for its move to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.