The Smithsonian is renovating its fossil hall and specimens are getting a fresh look in the process. Schlepping a nearly complete tyrannosaur skeleton through the Alberta badlands in 1913 can't have ...
Alberta has been ground zero for dinosaur discoveries in Canada since the 1880s, when several Geological Survey of Canada expeditions collected dinosaur bones from the southern part of the province.
The research paper details the discovery of one of the best North American fossil finds ever of a ornithomimus, a creature about two metres in height that lived around 75 million years ago. Further ...