By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Demystifying the way the science actually works… Much of the work that museums do boils down to educating the public, and they are often quite good at it. You probably wouldn’t be reading this blog if that wasn’t the case! Science communication is an...

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By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta When you think about the hit table-top roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, you typically think about elves, wizards, magical quests, and of course, dragons. Dinosaurs don’t really factor into that equation. However, you may be surprised to learn that prehistoric creatures have had a long...

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Huge dinosaurs like Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus roamed the Grande Prairie area about 70 million years ago, but such heavyweights never had the Cretaceous world to themselves. There were plenty of smaller dinosaurs around, like the little carnivore Boreonykus, and dinosaurs were only one component of a diverse ecosystem that also included fish, turtles, mammals and many other vertebrates, alongside plants...

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Katie Hunt, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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Terry A. Gates, David C. Evans, Joseph J.W. Sertich, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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Filippo Bertozzo, Fabio Manucci, Matthew Dempsey, Darren H. Tanke, David C. Evans, Alastair Ruffell, Eileen Murphy, 2020 VIEW ARTICLE The post Description and etiology of paleopathological lesions in the type specimen of Parasaurolophus walkeri (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae), with proposed reconstructions of the nuchal ligament appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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Federico A. Gianechini, Ariel H. Méndez, Leonardo S. Filippi, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Rubén D. Juárez-Valieri & Alberto C. Garrido, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo De La Carpa Formation), Northern Patagonia, Argentina appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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CBC News, Gregory F. Funston, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post First baby tyrannosaur fossils discovered in Alberta, Montana appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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Jin-Young Park, Yuong-Nam Lee, Philip J. Currie, Michael J. Ryan, Phil Bell, Robin Sissons, Eva B. Koppelhus, Rinchen Barsbold, Sungjin Lee & Su-Hwan Kim, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post STEGOSAUR TRACK ASSEMBLAGE FROM XINJIANG, CHINA, FEATURING THE SMALLEST KNOWN STEGOSAUR RECORD appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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Gregory F. Funston, Mark J. Powers, S. Amber Whitebone, Stephen L. Brusatte, John B. Scannella, John R. Horner, Philip J. Currie, 2021 VIEW ARTICLE The post Baby tyrannosaurid bones and teeth from the Late Cretaceous of western North America appeared first on Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.

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