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Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 220 kilometres (137 mi) east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; or 48 kilometres (30 mi) northeast of Brooks.. The park is situated in the Red Deer River valley, which is noted for its striking badland topography, and abundance of dinosaur fossils.
The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. [3]
The park is undisturbed and is home to animals of boreal forests, including grizzly bear, wolf, and caribou. [7] Dinosaur Provincial Park: Alberta: 1979 71; vii, viii (natural) The area is a practically undisturbed semi-arid steppe with badlands topography.
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta; Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia; Yoho National Park (Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia;
Scientists have found the U.K.’s largest dinosaur footprint site ever. The tracks were discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire — about 60 miles northwest of London — by quarry employee Gary ...
A specimen of Centrosaurus apertus recovered from Dinosaur Provincial Park in 1989 was discovered to have crippling osteosarcoma in its right fibula. Examination of the cancerous lesions in the bone suggest the cancer had reached an aggressive stage. The cancer would have resulted in a severe limp that would have made the ceratopsian more ...
Proposals to relocate a popular dinosaur park to make way for a Gypsy and traveller site have been dropped, a council has confirmed. Middlesbrough's Teessaurus Park is a 10-acre plot of land that ...
The area could turn out to be one of the world's biggest dinosaur track sites, she added. The discovery will feature in the BBC television documentary "Digging for Britain" , due to be broadcast ...