The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum hosted its two-day science festival Palaeo Palooza this weekend.
Saturday was spent with carnival games, scavenger hunts, and panels of professionals at the museum. On Sunday the festivities were moved to Pipestone Creek where science talk tables were set up in the park and along the trail to the Pipestone bonebed.
The bonebed is full of dinosaur fossils from about 70 million years ago, said Emily Bamforth, museum curator.
She said the bone bed goes back about a kilometre and is dense with fossils; about 100-300 per square metre.
Gabrielle Bonnie, a field technician, and Jackson Sweder, head technician, were busy extracting some fossils while Aster the “Paleo Pooch” supervised. (Photo by Jesse Boily)(Photo by Jesse Boily)Emily Bamforth, museum curator. (Photo by Jesse Boily)A horn of a 70 million year old dinosaur. (Photo by Jesse Boily)Kyle Martel demonstrates flint kipping and stone tool making during Palaeo Palooza at Pipestone Creek. (Photo by Jesse Boily)Sydney Born, Alberta Parks park interpreter makes some dinosaur crafts at one of the information booths at Pipestone Creek. (Photo by Jesse Boily)
