It also has a series of rooms representing the history of life on earth, with each room being one epoch, complete with fossils from that period. They concentrate on Albertan fossils, but include fossils from elsewhere in Canada, and from around the world. This one is a reproduction of the Burgess Shale fossils enlarged to 10 times the original size.
There is a room of plants that are the closest to those in the Cretacious period. Unfortunately, they’re not very big, and they probably aren’t of good relative sizes. For instance, the tree ferns they have are very small. The Centrosaurus is understandably the centrepiece of the exhibition - it comes from the area, and is one of the most complete dinosaurs ever found - it is so well preserved that it includes skin and its last meal, and it took the palaeontologist working on it seven years work to reveal. But they have other dinosaur fossils including a complete head
And a number still imbedded.
We went 2 hours drive away to the Dinosaur Provincial Park - the site that has revealed the most dinosaurs of anywhere in the world. We took a walk to the centrosaurus quarry. The park is a huge area of Badlands.
At the quarry everywhere you look there are dinosaur bones.
We were a bit disappointed that we couldn’t have more time there to look at the cottonwoods by the river, but the guided walk had been very interesting, and had shown us a lot of the badlands, including some cactus.
We crossed a river on our way south to our abode for the night. Again, the hills here are really eroded river banks as the area is all flat prairie.
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