June 30, 09

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Day 30. Tuesday.
My friends from Ontario came to pick me up this morning. They were headed to Drumheller to check out the Royal Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum and invited me along. It's about an hour and a half out of Calgary. It's a bit like a mini grand canyon in the way you are driving along fairly flat terrain when for no apparent reason there is a huge canyon stretching for miles. Apparently this is the richest dinosaur discovery area in the world. There are plenty of examples of various species. Some are completely assembled and some they have partially exposed and left in the rock in which they were discovered. There is a video showing how they uncover about half the bones, inject a bonding agent into all the cracks to hold things together then cover it in plaster and burlap. Once that is dried they dig up the entire thing, ground and all, wrap it all in plaster again before transport to the Museum where they can spend a year or more chipping away the rock surrounding the bones. Everything is chronologically displayed as well as an area for fossils of fish and plants.

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Photos

the bad lands
they claim this area has the richest deposit of dinosaur bones in the entire world

a few models
when you first enter

super croc
these guys were as long as a bus. See the modern croc head beside it?

extra bones
this wide guy had lots of extra bone bits all over. His skull was really rough too

fan head
just to look intimidating

big head
my friend Kevin seeing how he measured up

mammoth
not so wolly