Move along moose, SFU study reveals the ‘most Canadian’ animals

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose.

Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University researchers ranks, for the first time ever, species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the amount of time animals have evolved independently from other Canadian species.

Read more on SFU News here.

Read on Global and Mail article here.