New exhibits of rare Alberta dinosaur discoveries were unveiled Friday at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, in an exhibition called Breakthroughs. Read More
New exhibits of rare Alberta dinosaur discoveries were unveiled Friday at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, in an exhibition called Breakthroughs. Visitors were treated to a gorgosaur with prey fossilized in its stomach and Canada’s first preserved dinosaur eggs with embryos still inside. The exhibit is important because it “tells the stories of five extraordinary finds
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New exhibits of rare Alberta dinosaur discoveries were unveiled Friday at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, in an exhibition called Breakthroughs.
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Visitors were treated to a gorgosaur with prey fossilized in its stomach and Canada’s first preserved dinosaur eggs with embryos still inside.
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The exhibit is important because it “tells the stories of five extraordinary finds that changed our understanding of ancient animals, their evolution and their behaviours,” the museum says. “These fossils supported groundbreaking research on dinosaur feeding, nesting and evolutionary relationships.”
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In this collection of fossils some are one of a kind, while others are the best preserved and most complete of their species.
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The exhibit kicks off a year of celebrations for the Royal Tyrrell, which is marking its 40th anniversary this year. It opened in 1985.
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Visitors check out an incredibly detailed nodosaur fossil at the opening of Breakthroughs. The museum says it is the world’s best preserved armoured dinosaur, adding: “Borealopelta markmitchelli ate its final meal, which consisted of vegetation: mostly ferns, with some pieces of conifers, cycads, twigs, and stems. We know this today because these plants are preserved in the dinosaur’s stomach, along with charcoal. It appears Borealopelta was eating in an environment that had recently burned. Shortly after Borealopelta died, its body washed out to sea. The carcass then flipped upside-down and sank. It was perfectly preserved on the sea floor by the fine sediments that covered it.”
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