What's Happening in Leduc, AB…

Employees at a Leduc construction site recently made a very exciting discovery that will help to increase people’s knowledge of the pre-historic world.

In late October the crew of Dengar Construction was digging at trench at a site where a housing development was going to be built. They were very surprised to find a fossilised skeleton buried in the dirt.

The staff contacted Alberta’s Tyrell Museum of Paleontology, who dispatched a team to go out and see the find for themselves. With the help of the crew and their large excavator, they dug out the bones to determine just what type of dinosaur had been unearthed.

It turned out to be a Hypacrosaurus, which is a duck billed dinosaur from the Hadrosaur family. These animals grew up to 12 meters long and roamed throughout western North America 68 million years ago.

This makes the second such discovery in less than a month, and the museum expressed thanks to the business for contacting them about their find. Co-operation between the government funded institution, industry and amateur enthusiasts are helping to bring more and more fossils to light. Each find increases scientific knowledge about a long ago time.

The Tyrell museum is well known for its fossil collection and paleontological research, and was featured on CNN in 2013 when they made their list of Top Ten Best Dinosaur Museums in the world.

Museums help put the public in touch with the past. One thing that can really help with this is providing visitors with pamphlets made by brochure printers, as they can use them both while they are viewing the exhibits and once they get home.