A paleontologist excavates a dinosaur skeleton in the Drumheller Badlands of Alberta, Canada.


A paleontologist excavates a dinosaur skeleton in the Drumheller Badlands of Alberta, Canada. Dinosaurs from the Grande Prairie region come from a package of rocks known as the Wapiti Formation. These rocks span some 12 million years of Late Cretaceous history. In southern Alberta, this same unit of time has been divided up into three of the most dinosaur-rich rock formations anywhere in the world (Belly River Group, Bearpaw Formation, and Edmonton Group), which incorporate the famous badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Drumheller area. More than 45 species of dinosaur alone (there are dozens more mammals, birds, crocodilians, fish, rays, etc.) have been discovered in these rocks.


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Location: A paleontologist excavates a dinosaur skeleton in the Drumheller Badlands of Alberta, Canada.
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