The front entrance of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a Canadian tourist attraction and a centre of palaeontological research noted for its collection of more than 130,000 fossils. Located 6 kilometres (4 mi) northwest from Drumheller, Alberta and 135 kilometres (84 mi) northeast from Calgary,[5] the museum is situated in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation and holds numerous specimens from the Alberta badlands, Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Egg Site. The Royal Tyrrell Museum is operated by Alberta's Ministry of Culture. The Museum is named in honour of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, a geologist who accidentally discovered the first reported dinosaur fossil in the Red Deer River valley in 1884 while searching for coal seams. The carnivorous dinosaur was later named Albertosaurus sarcophagus. The museum opened September 25, 1985 and was given "Royal" status in 1990.*** Description sourced from Wikipedia.
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Location: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
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