Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum

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Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum
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Location within Alberta
Established1997
Location Warner, Alberta, Canada
TypePaleontology
Website www.devilscoulee.com

Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum, located in Warner, Alberta, Canada, is a key historic site in southern Alberta. [1] In 1997, ten fossilized dinosaur eggs, believed to have come from a Hadrosaur, specifically a Hypacrosaurus were found at Devil's Coulee site. [2] These were not the first fossils to be found in what was often called the Fossil Coulee region of the province and as a result the town of Warner established the museum to help interpret the story. [3]

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The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

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References

  1. Jeffery, Yvonne (2008-07-19). "History Alive, Within Reach". The Calgary Herald. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  2. "Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs Found by Paleontologist". The Buffalo News. 1997-08-12. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  3. Acorn, John (2007). Deep Alberta. University of Alberta. p. 49. ISBN   978-0-88864-481-7.

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