The Royal Tyrrell Museum
Today Sue and I drove to Drumheller to one of the world's greatest dinosaur museums, in an area that is only second to China with regard to the richness of dinosaur fossils. We spent a good four hours there.
The museum was opened in 1985 and is a fascinating place with excellent information boards and humorous videos.
Apparently there are around 10 to 14 million species currently in existence on the planet, and another 4 billion have once existed but are now extinct. So over 99% of species that have lived on earth are extinct. The museum at Drumheller receives around 2000 new specimens every year, some of which relate to previously undiscovered species.
Paleontology is a fascinating subject.
Then we visited some hoodoos that were as underwhelming as the dinosaur museum was overwhelming. Miniature versions of those we have seen in Cappadocia and in France.
We didn't walk anywhere much, but Charlie managed about 330 km in the rain, a record for this trip. There were some long straight roads. Then a most pleasant evening with Peter and Cassie, a large piece of salmon, and some fizz by way of a late anniversay celebration.
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