After sifting through the remnants of 500 million year old geology, I decided that it was deserved to extend the historical voyage....so I rambled on down through, and out of, the mountains and entered the lonliness of the praries to reach the famed Tyrell Museum where some of the most remarkable fossils are kept, prepared and studied. Beautiful weather, clear sky, hot hot hot and quite perfect.
The welcome...to a town that owes
everything to the commitment of erosion, over many years, to expose dino bones. And then someone had to find them....and find they did.
Presentation room where they extract fossils from the host rock and prepare it for study and display.
A trilobite, not from Burgess, but of a same species that is found in the Burgess Shale.
Dino eggs.
Fossilized feathers on an early bird species.
Fossilized turtle.
After poking around the museum for a few hours, and taking a brief hike/interpretive trail around the outside to see where they found some of these things...I got back on the road and set my sights on a campsite in.....drumroll.....Stettler, AB. ALso known as "Where? Stettler?!? Never heard of it..."
The welcome...to a town that owes everything to the commitment of erosion, over many years, to expose dino bones. And then someone had to find them....and find they did. 
Presentation room where they extract fossils from the host rock and prepare it for study and display. 
A trilobite, not from Burgess, but of a same species that is found in the Burgess Shale.
Dino eggs. 
Fossilized feathers on an early bird species. 
Fossilized turtle.
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