We left Edmonton after visits to four quilt shops among other things. We headed to Drumheller to visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. This museum has been open since 1985 and is truly one of a kind. It contains thousands of fossils and one of the largest collections of dinosaur skeletons in the world. Most of them have been found in the Alberta badlands, which surround the museum.
The first ones you encounter inside the museum are examples of Albertosaurus sarcophagus, a relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex. This dinosaur was discovered right in Alberta.
Here is a photo of Mike next to the leg of one of the larger dinosaurs. The museum includes a preparation lab where you can view how the paleontologists prepare the finds for exhibit.
The museum includes displays of the exact placement of the dinosaurs when they were discovered.
Outside the museum is a short Badlands Interpretive Trail, which we took. We saw the stratified rocks, mud slides in which new discoveries are made, and even a few hoodoos, the unique rocks that cover the area.
We saw the "World's Largest Dinosaur," a sight on par with Chicken's chicken and Medicine Hat's largest teepee.
Tomorrow we start for home, stopping briefly in Minnesota to see relatives.
Thanks for all the wonderful photos.
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