A 48-kilometre loop around the
Red Deer River west of Drumheller, Alberta's Dinosaur Trail takes
motorists on a fascinating trip through the fossil-rich badlands of the
Valley of the Dinosaurs, a vast prehistoric graveyard. Dr. J.B. Tyrrell
of the Geological Survey of Canada first uncovered the dinosaur beds near
Drumheller. His 1884 discovery of a petrified dinosaur head sparked a
fossil search since dubbed the great Canadian dinosaur rush of 1909-1917.
The Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Canada's only institute exclusively
devoted to exhibitions and study of prehistoric life, was established
in this area in 1985.
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