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| A Woman's Directory For Travel and Life. WAVE Journey is your one stop online resource for women oriented businesses and services around the world. WAVE Journey is for every woman to enjoy. If you love to travel, cook, read or revel in outdoor activities this website is for you. If you are looking to connect with other like-minded women or if you are interested in finding businesses or services that cater to women, WAVE Journey is your number one online resource. Hoodoo Hunting in Alberta ~ continued Article by Cherie Thiessen Continued on next page. |
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If you want to see how all
these bones have been put
back together, visit the
Royal Tyrrell Museum, six
kilometers northwest of
Drumheller in Midland
Provincial Park. The only
Canadian museum devoted
exclusively to paleontology,
it preserves 120,000
individual specimens in its
nine lofty galleries. One
spectacular specimen is the
these bones have been put
back together, visit the
Royal Tyrrell Museum, six
kilometers northwest of
Drumheller in Midland
Provincial Park. The only
Canadian museum devoted
exclusively to paleontology,
it preserves 120,000
individual specimens in its
nine lofty galleries. One
spectacular specimen is the
We were kept busy fossil ferreting, dawdling in Dinosaur Provincial Park, driving the Dinosaur
Trail, hoodoo hunting and museum munching. (There are over a dozen worthy museums in the
area, chronicling the early days of the pioneers, First Nations heritage, coal mining, dinosaur
nesting sites, reptiles and more.) Dinosaur Provincial Park, a world UNESCO Heritage site since
1979, is the world’s largest dinosaur fossil find in the world. Paleontologists think that the
bone beds found here contain up to one thousand Centrosaurus (horned) skeletons, and
speculate that they may have all been drowned in a sudden flash flood. You’re definitely going
to want to book a guided hike or a tour in this park.
Trail, hoodoo hunting and museum munching. (There are over a dozen worthy museums in the
area, chronicling the early days of the pioneers, First Nations heritage, coal mining, dinosaur
nesting sites, reptiles and more.) Dinosaur Provincial Park, a world UNESCO Heritage site since
1979, is the world’s largest dinosaur fossil find in the world. Paleontologists think that the
bone beds found here contain up to one thousand Centrosaurus (horned) skeletons, and
speculate that they may have all been drowned in a sudden flash flood. You’re definitely going
to want to book a guided hike or a tour in this park.
Camping and accommodations
around Drumheller are good
but limited in summer. We
surrendered to the Heartwood
Inn and Spa’s hydrosonic
massage and later recuperated
in its plush beds, succumbing
without a struggle. We give this
place a 5-hoodoo rating after
spending an exhaustive – and
exhausting – too short a time in
the Badlands. In autumn there’
s not enough daylight! Who can
ever get enough of dinosaurs?
around Drumheller are good
but limited in summer. We
surrendered to the Heartwood
Inn and Spa’s hydrosonic
massage and later recuperated
in its plush beds, succumbing
without a struggle. We give this
place a 5-hoodoo rating after
spending an exhaustive – and
exhausting – too short a time in
the Badlands. In autumn there’
s not enough daylight! Who can
ever get enough of dinosaurs?
21- metre Shonisaurus, a giant marine reptile painstakingly excavated by the museum’s past
curator of Marine Reptiles,Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls. Found in northern British Columbia, and only
displayed since last year, it’s considered the museum’s biggest discovery. There are also
showstoppers like Black Beauty, the best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skull ever found,
and a young Theropod (fierce lizard) skeleton, the best example of its kind in the world.
curator of Marine Reptiles,Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls. Found in northern British Columbia, and only
displayed since last year, it’s considered the museum’s biggest discovery. There are also
showstoppers like Black Beauty, the best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skull ever found,
and a young Theropod (fierce lizard) skeleton, the best example of its kind in the world.
| photo by David Dossor |