Last month I asked readers of this blog to vote for which location deserved the title of "Dinosaur Capital of the World." Glen Rose, Texas quickly jumped into the lead, but many commenters voiced ...

Alberta has been in the news for the wrong thing, lately: tar sands: That big, sprawling Canadian province, which is closer to Portland than you may think, also has some very special visitor ...

The remains of a mosasaur discovered in southern Alberta on show at the opening of Breakthroughs, a new exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Ab., on Friday May 16, 2025.

Summertime weather makes for excellent road trips to see the dinosaurs in Drumheller. Not just the fossils of the great monsters that once roamed the prehistoric coastal plains of the Badlands, but ...

When visiting a country as large as Canada, the variety of things to see and do are endless. Each province offers numerous activities and sights for tourists, and locals. And even though it may take ...

Introduction -- Purpose -- Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy -- Types of preservation and methods of study.

Drumheller, some 90 miles northeast of Calgary, Canada, looks like any one of a thousand western towns. Its quiet streets are lined with low-slung buildings and storefronts, a diner or two, a bank ...

Albertosaurus was shorter than most of the RVs I’ve been stuck behind on my journey around the great province of Alberta, but as a smaller ancestor of T. rex, he still packed a serious bite. Somehow I ...

An important first step has been taken to save Tyra the Tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller and was facing extinction by the end of this decade.

I’ve got a dinosaur in my pocket right now. It doesn’t belong to me, although I didn’t steal it. OK, I admit, it’s not a whole dinosaur. The whole thing fits inside my closed fist. There’s a small ...