The Royal Tyrrell Museum

A truly brilliant museum full of wonderful and amazing animals. It was also heartwarming to see the scientific method and evolutionary theory so cherished and so clearly enunciated in the opening displays. I became a little obsessed with the explanations of extinction events. Did you know the earth has suffered five such events?
1. End of the Ordovician (444 million years ago [mya]) 86% of species went extinct in this one!
2. In the Late Devonian (360 mya)
3. At the End of the Permian (250 mya)
4. At the End of the Triassic (200 mya)
5. The End of the Cretaceous (65 mya) – this was the “event” that killed off the dinosaurs🦖🦕
I also became fascinated by the ammonites. They went extinct with the dinosaurs in the 5th extinction event. Their remains are used for jewellery called ammolites.
A great day ended in a drive to Medicine Hat for the night. Next stop Regina!Read more