Bones Embedded on Rocks: Drumheller Revisited

18 Oct

Posted by: ArTanGeL / Category: Back Home, Travel ME

Bones Embedded on Rocks: Drumheller Revisited

by: Mariko

I had the opportunity of going into one of the most visited landmark in my province of Alberta, the Royal Tyrell Museum, home of genuine fossils from the abovementioned place and recently from around the world..I was there when I was in Grade 7 and back then there was not much dinosaur bones to be seen yet. There was a lot of digging goin on and we were shown how Paleontologist would extract a fossilized structure out of a piece of rock. We were told that sometimes, it would take a year to piece out a piece of leg (which is ,of course, huge by modern standard ) from a boulder.

This time, we were told that the fossils on display were from all over the world, not only dugged out from Alberta and there was a variety of animals and plants that were still attach to the rock from where it was coming from…There was a genuine shop selling fossils but apparently their stuff were not coming from the surrounding Drumheller but from diggings in the United States. Nobody was allowed to dig except licensed Paleontologist and even their numbers were regulated by the government.

Reading the history of the place, I realized that Drumheller and Alberta,for that particular matter has become the catch basin of Dinosaurs millions of years ago when the Ice caps in the North Atlantic melted. That explains why thousands of fossil bones were found in our province and why we have one of the largest oil deposits in the world..I want to share with my readers some of the pics that I got when me and my family drove there. Here goes;