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Must See

Dinosaur Hall
Did You Know? The main highlight of the
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Tyrrell’s first find was museum, this hall has a T-rex
hovering over a display of some
named Albertosaurus 40 other complete dinosaur
sarcophagus (“flesh- Museum Highlights skeletons, including specimens
eating lizard of Stegosaurus and Triceratops.
from Alberta”).

Cretaceous
Alberta Garden
See Alberta as it was 69 million
years ago, lush and semi-tropical,
and come face to face with a pack
of Albertosaurus dinosaurs.
Discover what else dared to live in
the same neighborhood as these
giants, including the Didelphodon,
hiding among the ferns.

Mammal Hall
Strange creatures roamed the
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lands during the beginning of the
Cenozoic Era, our current geological
time, marking the moment when
mammals, initially small, appeared
alongside the dinosaurs.

INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS
The museum offers various programs for kids and Ice Age Hall
adults out in Alberta’s Badlands, where it all began. Look up at dramatic displays of
Activities include guided hikes, searching for dinosaur woolly mammoth skeletons, sabre-
fossils, learning how to excavate a site using profes- toothed cats, and bison – all
sional tools and techniques, and even extended of which adapted to a colder
camps. Within the museum itself, you can cast fossils, climate when their habitat in the
get involved in indoor digs, see how skeletons are Northern Hemisphere was covered
assembled, and attend talks from palaeontologists. in ice – and learn what happened
when man appeared in their world.
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