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in the Badlands of Alberta in Canada
sits the Royal Tyrrell Museum of
Paleontology
this museum has over 140,000 fossils
collected over nearly two decades of
expeditions and each year teams head out
to search for more it is a place of
immense scientific importance greatly
contributing to our understanding of the
deep past and is vital in educating the
public about the history of life on
Earth
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the museum first opened on September the
25th 1985 to thousands of people who are
present it was named Tyrell in honor of
Joseph Burt I ran a geologist who
discovered the first fossils of the
Tyrannosaur albertasaurus Tyrell was
working for the Geological Survey of
Canada and while searching for coal
deposits in 1884 he came across the 17
million year old fossil eyes remains of
Tyrannosaur he knew that this find was
important so transported it to
paleontologists to be identified thanks
to his discovery it was eventually
realized that Alberta was rich in
fossils and many important finds have
been made since then receiving over
500,000 visitors in its first year far
more than was originally predicted and
attracting many more people since the
museum receives the title of royal in
1990 one of the major parts of the
museum is of course the exhibits
featuring many dinosaurs from Alberta
and also other ancient creatures such as
the animals found burgers shell in the
Rocky Mountains
the museum exhibits take visitors on a
walk through time from the cambrian sea
creatures to dinosaurs and then food to
the Cenozoic and the megafauna it also
features a glass window looking under
the fossil preparation labs where
fossils are cleaned for research and
display but not on displays of the
majority of the public are the massive
collections of fossils but the museum
houses behind the scenes in huge
warehouses thousands of fossils are kept
many of which have never been studied
due to the sheer number of available
specimens one of the most common types
of dinosaur fossils kept here are the
hadrosaur bones which are so numerous
that a lot of them have never even been
taken out of their protective plastic
coverings the vast collections are open
to scientists and researchers who wish
to access them and the collection aids
massively in the study of paleontology
and in furthering knowledge of the field
as well as contributing to science the
Royal Tyrrell Museum runs many public
and school programs assisting in the
teaching of paleontology to the public
there are many activities open to people
of all ages such as the battlin science
camp in which groups camp out in the
Badlands and take part in many
activities in and outside of the museum
these programs aim to inspire new
generations of scientists to study the
history of life and to become
paleontologists themselves
the Royal Tyrrell Museum is an
incredible source of information science
and is immensely valuable to the
understanding of history of life on
Earth