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THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM One of the Richest Dinosaur Fossil Areas
in the World by Leanna Mohan
Since the discovery of the Burgess Shale in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Wolcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Alberta has developed an international reputation as one of the world's richest Palaeontological sites. Dr. David Eberth, research scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, explains that this "richness", when speaking in terms of fossil deposits, is measured by the numbers and diversity of bones that turn up. “During the past 100 years, more than 1000 skeletons and partial skeletons of dinosaurs have been collected from Alberta,” Eberth says. “More than 70 different types of dinosaurs have been identified, along with many hundreds of different kinds of non-dinosaur animals such as mammals, birds, and reptiles. Southern Alberta is simply one of the richest dinosaur fossil areas in the world." Why did these vigorous reptilian
Royal Tyrell Museum Photo
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