 During the time of the dinosaurs, before 65 million years ago, a great inland sea covered much of western Canada and the area now known as Alberta and Saskatchewan was a lust tropical shore and home to over 35 different species of dinosaurs.
As these animals died, the evolving landscape covered their bones with centuries of mud and sand, only to be revealed when the glaciers of the last Ice Age scraped away the top layer of rock and exposed bits of fossilized bone.
Discovered by palaeontologists in the late 1800's, they inspired generations of dinosaur hunters and established Canada as one of the richest sources of Late fossils on earth.
Dromaeosaurus (meaning "running lizard") was one of two raptor species that lived in Alberta between 71 and 76 million years ago. They were agile with a light body and a long tail that allowed them to maintain their balance as they ran upright on their hind legs.
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