13 August 2017
We’re not taking the most direct route across the continent. I wanted to take several-hundred-mile detour to Drumheller, Alberta to visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I heard about it because of the new exhibit of a “mummified” dinosaur that had scales and internal organs mostly intact. It turned out to be well worth the trip -- this is one spectacular dinosaur museum. I’d put it on the must-see list for any dinosaur enthusiast.
We’re not taking the most direct route across the continent. I wanted to take several-hundred-mile detour to Drumheller, Alberta to visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I heard about it because of the new exhibit of a “mummified” dinosaur that had scales and internal organs mostly intact. It turned out to be well worth the trip -- this is one spectacular dinosaur museum. I’d put it on the must-see list for any dinosaur enthusiast.
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| The nodosaur, Borealopelta markmitchelli, that was the original reason for coming here. |
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| The museum has kept a number of specimens intact in the rock in which they were discovered. This one is a juvenile Gorgosaurus libratus. |
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| Another in situ specimen -- Tyrannosaurus rex. |
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| A balcony view of an Albertosaurus skull that also shows a portion of the huge gallery below. |
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| Euoplocephalus skull. |
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| It’s not just dinosaurs. This is a small section of a large panel of carboniferous-era plants. There was also a conservatory garden of contemporary versions of dinosaur-era plants, as well as a gallery or two of recent fossils such as mastodons, mammoths, and giant sloths. Something for fossil-lovers of all sorts! |
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