The Royal Tyrell Museum
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- Located in Drumheller, in the middle of the Alberta badlands, the Royal Tyrell Museum is one of the best collection of dinosaur and other fossils in the world. Admission is 10 dollars (CA) (v. cheap compared to theme parks etc) and you could spend all day here!
Wednesday 19th Aug 2009
Up with the dawn and onto the Drumheller museum. The roads here are crazy. They just go through the middle of nowhere. Usually in the widelands there is at least some evidence of humans (farmland etc) but here there seems to be very little even of that. Got to the Royal Tyrell Museum about 9.30. The museum was great for kids who just wanted to see lots of dino-skeletons, however as someone trying to put the whole thing together in my head, it was really too much and I guess thats unavoidable. Trying to keep track of what the land of alaberta was like over the past 500mn years and what fauna lived when its kinda tough (as the seas came and went). I mean biology is hard enough, but for this you need to expand the matrix of biology back over .5bn yrs. Hmm, methinks that be a years or two of work! Nonetheless the place is great! Many exhibits giving overviews of the geology of the place and the processes of fossilization, tectonic drift and evolution. The tour of the museum was kinda fun you start off in the Precambrian, then walk up to the present, each time surrounded by the fossilized life of the age, in many cases with fossils from Alberta. They also had one of the original archaeopteryx on display! I paused for a while on that! To actually see in person the fossil with the part- velocoraptor, part avian features was quite an experience.
Left the museum about midday (quite tired) and headed for the border. The road was VERY quiet. Got to the border about 5ish. The contrast between the US and Canadian border agents was vivid (although part of this may be that I went into Canada at the busy BC crossing and back at the nowhere Montana crossing. The Canadians were emotionally detached, but took time to explain in a reasoned fashion what they were doing etc. The Montana border agents frankly came across as powertrip jerks. The guy who I handed my passport to was the every part the stereotype for the part. Silvered sunglasses (something that noteably none of the Canadians wore). The line of questioning was needlessly antagonistic which spoke of someone who got his kicks out of being a jerk to people knowing that he was in a position of social authority, to which they could do nothing. Put simply the Canadians were professional and businesslike and played the role that one would want the law enforcement to play. The US guys were almost the archetype of those you wouldnt want being law enforcement officers. My goal was to cross the border without incident. This was achieved by playing the obedient beta role. Needs must as the devil drives.
The road south was equally deserted, the only brief moment of excitement was when some huge pickup (hammering by on the outside) had a blowout. Got to Great in late evening and managed (after some busy bouncing around at sears, target and various other stores) to find a big walmart that sold the aiptek action DV (had a considerable dilemma as there are reports that the aiptek HD will blue screen with loss of signal, hmm 170 bux, however it will certainly tell me if the AV kit is working, and if all else fails I can always return it). Headed south to Cascade where I found a quiet dirt road turnoff. Left the camera going on a fantastic night sky (it was about midnight by now and the body had quit took something to hold it together and get out of Great Falls!).
Interesting exhibits. Makes one want to visit the mueum to see the dinosaurs oneself.
The Tyrell Museum is my favourite museum in Canada. I've been there several times, and thoroughly enjoyed it every time.
Thanks for the video Tf00t. I live in Calgary, but haven't visited the Royal Tyrell since I was a kid. I've got to make time to go back.
The hoodoos can be found all around Drumheller along the river both NW and SE of the city. There are hoodoos right beside the museum. Albeit the best hoodoos in Alberta can be found in the area around Dinosaur Provincial Park by Brooks, AB.
Up until around the Jurassic the western side of Alberta was beach front property which is why there are so many marine fossil beds found in the rockys. In around the Jurassic terrains from the Pacific collided with the North America Plate creating the Rocky Mountains in Alberta. It is a fantastic province when it comes to geology!
7:57 I live in Wyoming. Amazing to think millions of years ago those things were running around the same places I am!
Welcome to the new installment of "Tf00t visits cool places you didn't know existed"
Another awesome video.
If you ever reach Nova Scotia, Canada, I'll buy the beer (or wine or whiskey). Great videos. Thanks.
Yeah, I loved the rare stuff like the transitional fossil and the tortoise at the end.
Beautiful! Now I want to take a trip there some day. :D
I loved that transitional fossil, between dinosaur and bird.
thank you thank you for showing the world the great parts (last few vids) of my part of the world
I hope you had a great time exploring Alberta
It's also comforting to see how many kids are at that museum learning about the real world and not some fucking fairy tales.
A great museum and well laid out. Was there with the family a couple of years ago.
Pity you didn't head over to Dinosaur Provincial Park though - mind you I'm not sure what it's like these days. I was there for a week about 25 yrs ago, walking the hoodoos and wandering between the fossil tree stumps. And there is so much material there just washing out of the hillsides - they don't have enough people to collect and catalog it all.
When you get to Ontario, don't forget to stop by the Science Center in Toronto... :-)
The "fish within a fish" fossil is a xiphactinus from Western Kansas. I've been within a mile of where it was unearthed.
Not let go in the wild, of course - but in captivity, yes.
The dinosaur at 3:50 was quite clearly in the process of excreting a complete human leg bone when it drowned in the flood.
Evolution refuted.
Seriously! thats my favorite star trek episode.
What a fantastic museum.
coolest museum ever
Very cool!
Regarding the skull you couldn't identify in 7:36.
It's a glyptodont skull aka. giant armadillo.
That looks like an awesome museum.
Hey, maybe you could take a detour down to Kentucky to visit the creation museum, that should be interesting.
Quite an interesting place. Wish there were some more natural history museums where I live. The best one I've been to was the one in New York City, though there aren't really many real original fossils there.
He he there are people speaking cantonese at about 1:15 and they're saying something about how some whiskers or something are moving and also something about a cockroach. Just a fun observation.
I really need to go back here one day.
Just an observation: I notice that ever since TF has entered Canada, his videos are getting more observed by Canadians. According to the statistical map. The green shade coded map has gotten darker since he has entered Canada.
Great museum and great video!
I seem to have gotten ahead of myself, though. On my first view of this video, the rating button told me that I'd already rated this video. TH-cam, go figure. Well, I hope that I gave it 5 stars whenever it was that I rated without knowing it.
Amazing!
You wonder if a person brought up in a "Creationist" home, goes to the Royal Tyrell Museum and maybe feels a great big chill go up their spine when they actually see what is in front of them... a huge building full of "evolution"!
To bad you never got down to the Hoodoos...might have made a cool flight over the badlands.
"Only if the herbivores had split hooves and chewith the cud were they clean"
Herbivorous mammals.
In some ways I think it's more appropriate to compare dinosaurs to birds. For birds, it seems that the primary distinction is carnivore or herbivore.
It's neck vertibrae lock into place. That would only be helpful for frontal bashing. A flank headbut would actually damage the neck once it's locked. Sort of like snapping a tree branch.
Goodonya Tf00t!, I'd would love to go and be seeing the stuff which you are seeing now!...Guess there wasn't enough space on good old Noah's ark for the few dinonsaurs that got left behind
I found your border experience interesting. For me, it has always been the opposite. When traveling to the US, I've always been greeted by very friendly border guards who seem eager to answer any questions I might have and were pleasant to deal with. Returning to Canada (by road or air) I have never not been thoroughly searched by some of the most arrogant pig-headed power-tripping bastards I've ever met.
Oh sweet your here in AB? You should go to Torrington (they have a hilarious gopher museum) What do you think of this province?
That, in my experience, is the difference between Canada and the US. Hard to explain really, but there you have it.
"I can't remember all the "Rules", but the bird had to fly, and be a herbvore if I can remember right"
I didn't see a flight requirement in my brief overview of the definition of "clean", but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.
I'm finding this strangely fascinating. Suddenly I see how the process goes, how the bronze age mythology of the bible can be "interpreted" to try to apply it to the modern world.
A bantha skull? Flippin sweet :)
what a great musuem, I'll have to put it on my list of places to go next time I'm in Alberta, maybe sneak up the road to the creationist museum to raise a little hell ;-)
that place is awesome
yay another vid :)
how much longer are you in the US for?
If you thought I was taking the flood story seriously, the hint that I intended otherwise was in my usage of the term "mythology".
I find the details make it seem even more ludicrous. Taking two of each animal is difficult enough. Factor in the requirement of SEVEN of some of them, and things get even more bleak.
It gets even better. Some sources have tried to interpret that as meaning seven pairs of each. They have clearly not thought the space and food requirement issues through.
Tf00t should have gone to Big Rock (worlds largest erratic), its right by Calgary!
Parasaurolophus' nasal cavity was located in its forhead, so it would make little sense to use it as a weapon. Imagine people fighting by bashing their noses into eachother. Does more harm to the attacker than the victim.
yay at 7:24 it's the predators skull room. :)
At least we're not next to Separatist Quebec, we're next to B.C., with some of the finest herb in North America. If pot isn't you're thing, then try B.C. fruits and vegetables, and while you're at it, try an Alberta Beef Triple A steak. To wash down your delicious meal enjoy a fine brew from Alberta or BC. Alberta was also one of the last places to feel the recession, and will be the first to come out of it.
Life in the west is Fucking Awesome.
You do what I can't, and that's travel.
yes it was probly just used for self defense in the same way that Rhinos use theyre horns but not for clashing with each other in the way that Deer and Rams do
Love seeing a museumful of evidence against creationism!
Good job!
Canada gets this, and we get a creation museum. Greatest country in the world, fuck me.
Anyone noticed how Tf00t says that there were marine dinosaurs? Unfortunately, dinosaurs were restricted to land only. A minor error, but an error none-the-less
I loved The Royal Tyrell Museum. Sadly I only had three hours to spend there:(
I think he lives in the US. If I'm not mistaken, he lives in New York since his tag was a New York tag in the video where he hit a coyote. I could be wrong about that, though.
While Tyrell is great, just up the road to Big Valley there is an Albertan Creation Museum. The stupidity there really makes you shake your head. They built it to "counter" Tyrell
No grass, but earth does not require grass as grass requires earth... which is to say, there would have been something soily there.
The dinosaurs they took on the ark were baby dinosaurs, and since they only took two of each, they prayed REAL HARD to make sure they made it to their breeding age.
The praying didn't work of couse, (like always); and that's why the dinosaurs are extinct today.
I have not been there in such a long time.
Wow, one of these day's I have to check out that place. Amazing that Alberta has museums with all these fossils, yet, it's a province filled with Creationists!
"and since they only took two of each"
A popular misconception. Oddly enough, they took two of the unclean animals and SEVEN of the uncleans. Which is funny because the demarcation between clean and unclean was only "created" later. And no one noticed that they'd just added in later concepts to early mythology.
The definitions are not clear, but at a guess it might be that predatory dinos=unclean and herbivores=clean.
You're in CANADA? You need to come back and make more "WDPLAC" videos.
Only if the herbivores had split hooves and chewith the cud were they clean, I don't recall any dinos that had hooves, and I don't think they chewith the cud, so all the dinos had just a reservation for 2 on the Love Boat.
I fucking love dinosaurs.
At 4:22, its not actually a dinosaur...its more kinda on the lines of a reptile, yeah sorry just had to say that. Great work though, I would have loved to see that museum!
Well yes, we are synapsids in the same sense that we are bony fishes. :)
Privacy laws. The privacy laws in Canada are far more strict.
I was wondering myself since all the Canadians came out of the woodwork... but I have recently discovered some folks in my office (in Vancouver) were TF00ters. Are there just a lot of Canadian fans now moved to comment?
Actually, TF works and lives in the U.S., but he goes to the UK frequently.
I can look at fossil/bones all day long. You got some stuff wrong in this, I am surprised.
"Incoming protests from real biologists." :D
Yeah, you should never call synapsids reptiles, and all that... too bad most people don't have clue of what an amniote or a synapsid is.
I'm really envious of you for being to see all those fantastic fossils first hand. Even if there's probably a lot of casts in there, at least you get a very good sense of scale and 3d shape of the animal.
Creotard, my new favorite word. :)
I think if there is a God, he's up there shaking his head at us. We're supposedly created in his image, and human parents, the good ones, that is, encourage their children to learn and grow, and become self-sufficient. They don't press red-hot branding irons into their skin, or throw them onto a lit fireplace, if they try to do anything but sit on the floor in front of them for the rest of their lives being spoon-fed and drooling all over themselves.
How did the trees take root? There was no grass and no earth (dirt), right?
Please research Plant evolution. Most "trees" are angiosperms, and are quite modern when you look at the geologic timescale. There was plenty of "dirt" by the time angiosperms evolved.
that last meal might actually be a supposed to be live born offspring.been a while,could be wrong.guppys do it.
the Google cars have been driving around British Columbia in recent months
there are seven or nine complete skeletons last time I checked
You might've had a point, I don't know, I'm not a scientist of any variety, but I can tell you one thing...insulting the people you're trying to convince of your view is the absolute worst thing you could do, as it not only drives them away from your point, but will cause them to return the favor, or simply ignore anything you say from there on.
Nothing good is ever accomplished in anger. Cold logic and staying to facts, not opinions, is what wins people to your side.
oh! thanks :) i missed that :)
When creationists walk through these exhibits, do they not question their Creation stories or holy book explanations? Do they think this stuff is all made up in some special effects lab without any scientific methodology behind it? How can they remain faithful after experiencing this incredible exhibit? Even the mammoth is older than their story of creation.
I wish we could clone a sabertooth cat.
yea alberta!!
Weren't Icthyosaurs and Pleisiosaurs classed as marine dinosaurs...?
Anyone know the reason why Canada has no road views on Google Earth? I see them in Germany, France, Spain and England. But none for Canada.
@sdpgposd
This is in Alberta (Canada)
Sorry, wrong dinosaur. I saw P and then a bunch of letters and assumed you meant parasaurolophus.
There's pretty conclusive evidence that they headbutted in rivalry. Why would you ask that?
Alberta also has Canada`s largest Mormon Temple :`(
some one should send PCS and Gerrup there to learn something
alberta rules!
$10 for a real education.
Beats the $25 of the creation museum for thier make believe exhibits.
...that we know of, of course.
Minus the Xenomorph.
Anyone know how many T. Rex skeletons are there in the world?
peoples r synapsids or came from synapsids right?
I am a geologist and an ecologist. In university i had the chance to take two paleo courses and in one of them had a one-on-one discussion with Philip Currie (former head curator at the Tyrell Museum). I remember a lecture where my professor let us know how frustrating it was when morons called non-dinosaurs (like marine reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic) dinosaurs. You should really give this up since you obviously dont have a clue what you are talking about.
No, you are completely incorrect.
di⋅no⋅saur [dahy-nuh-sawr]:
-noun
Any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
Terrestrial only, no marine reptiles have or will ever been considered dinosaurs.
As far as I can tell he is English, but lives in the US.
while they "look like big chicken feet" you will find that chicken feet have a lot more small individual bones rather. Just go to a Yum Cha with some Chinese friends (if you happen to have any) and you will know what I am talking about.
Just sayin...
Siamese twins?
how old is he, and whitch education ??