The Gaspé Peninsula hides a secret locals rarely discuss, and it is not the postcard landscapes. Travellers come for the cliffs and whales, but beneath the region’s calm surface lies something far stranger that researchers are only beginning to understand.
The Gaspé Peninsula, a narrow arm of land extending into the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the eastern edge of Quebec, contains a remarkable concentration of geological and biological history. The region is the terminal point of the Appalachian mountain range, which once rivaled the Himalayas in height but has been worn down over hundreds of millions of years. This ancient landscape holds fossils, rare…