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Dinosaurs of Alberta: New Discoveries and Research Philip J. Currie Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Dinosaurs of Alberta: New Discoveries and Research · DINOSAURS A world famous scientist tells about hunting dinosaurs with a whisk broom, about the Thunder Lizard that weighed 80,000

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Page 1: Dinosaurs of Alberta: New Discoveries and Research · DINOSAURS A world famous scientist tells about hunting dinosaurs with a whisk broom, about the Thunder Lizard that weighed 80,000

Dinosaurs of Alberta: New

Discoveries and Research

Philip J. Currie

Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

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Barnum Brown1910-1915

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

UNESCO World

Heritage Site

Designation 1979

Dedication ceremony

June 19, 1980

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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Opened in 1985)

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Alberta, Canada

Established 1955

UNESCO World Heritage List 1979

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University of Alberta

baby ceratopsian

Quarry Q255

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Philip J. Currie, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences

Chasmosaurus

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Cover by

Michael Skrepnick

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OrnithomimusTMP 95.110.1

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Science 2012

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OrnithomimusZelenitsky et al. 2012

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75 million year old

insects in amber

from

southern Alberta

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McKellar et al. 2011

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2009

Q254

UALVP 52531

Dinosaur Provincial Park

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Painting by Julius Csotonyi from Zelenitsky et al. 2012

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Barbule melanosomes

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Saurornitholestes

langstoni Sues 1974

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Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

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UALVP 55700

Saurornitholestes

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Dinosaur Expo 2016

Tokyo, Japan

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Saurornitholestes langstoni

UALVP 55700

CT scan

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Saurornitholestes

langstoni

Histological thin

sections of long

bones

UALVP 55700

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Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

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Saurornitholestes langstoni UALVP 55700

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negative Time of Flight Secondary ion mass spectrometry

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