June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

Most of the modern fossil discoveries from Dinosaur Provincial Park have all been shipped to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. So we follow the Red Deer River valley upstream past long stretches of Badlands to Drumheller, Alberta. This museum is famous and deservedly so. It is huge and has to be by far the largest paleontological museum we have seen. It is packed with extraordinary fossils including Albertosaurus, the T-Rex of this area. The size of the largest plant-eating Sauropods is mind-boggling.

The museum is well done. We could have spent all day here and we almost did. This was mostly my doing. The highlight of Aimee’s day was when we took a break halfway and walked back to the “house” for a Hot Chocolate break.