Dinosaur Provincial Park
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How it came to be
Along the Red Deer River in Alberta, western Canada, badlands cut into Late Cretaceous beds laid down some 75 to 77 million years ago. The badlands run for about 26 kilometres along the river and have yielded more than 350 articulated specimens, over 150 of them complete skeletons.
On 27 June 1955, as part of Alberta's 50th Jubilee, a provincial park was created to protect the fossil beds. Its first warden was Roy Fowler, a farmer and amateur fossil hunter. On 26 October 1979 the park was inscribed for its badlands, its riverside habitats and its fossils.
Its specimens are held in more than 30 major museums. Until the Royal Tyrrell Museum opened about 100 kilometres upstream in 1985, finds had to be shipped to museums elsewhere for study and display. In 1992 the park was extended by 2,033 hectares.
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