You may be taking in the gorgeous scenery and verdant surroundings as you stroll through an old forest in Alberta, Canada, but you probably aren’t aware that there is a carpet of dinosaur bones beneath your feet.
Greetings from one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever discovered: The Pipestone Creek Bone Bed.
Located near Wembley in northern Alberta, this bone bed is part of the Pipestone Creek area, which is within the Wapiti Formation.
Al Lakusta, a local science teacher, made the initial discovery in 1974 when he saw a ledge littered with fossils near the creek’s banks.
That discovery led to decades of excavation, mostly by the Royal Tyrrell Museum in the late 1980s, and the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is still conducting excavations today.
The size and consistency of this place are what make it unique. Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a horned dinosaur commonly known as the “boss-nosed lizard,” is the only species whose fossils make up the entire bone bed.
This ceratopsian, a distant relative of Triceratops, weighed between two and four tonnes and was between six and eight meters long.
Pachyrhinosaurus had a large bony boss on its snout that was a thickened, flattened pad in place of a nose horn. These animals’ varied ornamentation may have helped them identify each other.
The fact that fossils span all ages – from adults to babies – indicates that these dinosaurs lived in close-knit “megaherds”. They are compared to enormous caribou packs.
New technologies, such as 3D scans and DNA analysis, are assisting researchers in exploring life from 70 million years ago
The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, which is only 19 km from the location, provides fossil tours, digs, and even public excavations at Pipestone Creek.
Fossil trails, guided hikes, and interactive paleontology programs are all available for visitors to engage with ancient worlds.
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